Java 8 stream join and return multiple values

Question

I\'m porting a piece of code from .NET to Java and stumbled upon a scenario where I want to use stream to map & reduce.

class Content
{
  private String          


        

Answer 1

static Content merge(List list) {
    return new Content(
            list.stream().map(Content::getA).collect(Collectors.joining(", ")),
            list.stream().map(Content::getB).collect(Collectors.joining(", ")),
            list.stream().map(Content::getC).collect(Collectors.joining(", ")));
}

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EDIT: Expanding on Federico's inline collector, here is a concrete class dedicated to merging Content objects:

class Merge {

    public static Collector collector() {
        return Collector.of(Merge::new, Merge::accept, Merge::combiner, Merge::finisher);
    }

    private StringJoiner a = new StringJoiner(", ");
    private StringJoiner b = new StringJoiner(", ");
    private StringJoiner c = new StringJoiner(", ");

    private void accept(Content content) {
        a.add(content.getA());
        b.add(content.getB());
        c.add(content.getC());
    }

    private Merge combiner(Merge second) {
        a.merge(second.a);
        b.merge(second.b);
        c.merge(second.c);
        return this;
    }

    private Content finisher() {
        return new Content(a.toString(), b.toString(), c.toString());
    }
}

Used as:

Content merged = contentList.stream().collect(Merge.collector());