Logging inside Stream

Question

I am trying to convert this piece of code to Java 8 stream:

if(list!=null && list.size()>0){
    Actor actor = null;
    for(Actor actor:list){
           


        

Answer 1

Often we put logging into our code to support debugging. In this case I would recommend you to have a look at the peek method.

Here is a hint:

   List<Actor> actors = ...;

    actors.
        stream().
        peek(a -> System.out.println("Processing code: " + a.getCode())).
        forEach(a -> {/*Do something here*/});

From the javadocs:

API Note: This method exists mainly to support debugging, where you want to see the elements as they flow past a certain point in a pipeline:

Answer 2

I think that using forEach in this case would be working quite nice for you? Example:

list.stream().forEach(actor -> {
    log.info(String.format("Actor being read {%s}", actor));
    String actorCode = actor.getCode();
    areaDAO.getArea(actorCode).stream().findFirst().ifPresent(area -> {
       actor.setArea(area);
       log.info(String.format("Area {%s} is fetched for actor {%s}", area, actorCode));
    });
    getContext().setReadCount(1);
})

You may want to throw in Objects.isNull() as well in some cases - e.g for that getCode part - as well as Optional.ofNullable?