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chrisrhyno2003
chrisrhyno2003

Reputation: 4177

Assign value of Optional to a variable if present

Hi I am using Java Optional. I saw that the Optional has a method ifPresent.

Instead of doing something like:

Optional<MyObject> object = someMethod();
if(object.isPresent()) {
    String myObjectValue = object.get().getValue();
}

I wanted to know how I can use the Optional.ifPresent() to assign the value to a variable.

I was trying something like: 

String myValue = object.ifPresent(getValue());

What do I need the lambda function to be to get the value assigned to that variable?

Upvotes: 21

Views: 98484

Answers (5)

davidddp
davidddp

Reputation: 591

.findFirst() returns a Optional<MyType>, but if we add .orElse(null) it returns the get of the optional if isPresent(), that is (MyType), or otherwise a NULL

MyType s = newList.stream().filter(d -> d.num == 0).findFirst().orElse(null);

Upvotes: 2

Ankur
Ankur

Reputation: 7

Optional l = stream.filter..... // java 8 stream condition

        if(l!=null) {
            ObjectType loc = l.get();
            Map.put(loc, null);
        }

Upvotes: -1

Optional
Optional

Reputation: 4507

Quite late but I did following:

String myValue = object.map(x->x.getValue()).orElse("");
                           //or null. Whatever you want to return.

Upvotes: 21

yshavit
yshavit

Reputation: 43391

You need to do two things:

  1. Turn your Optional<MyObject> into an Optional<String>, which has a value iff the original Optional had a value. You can do this using map: object.map(MyObject::toString) (or whatever other method/function you want to use).
  2. Get the String value of of your Optional<String>, or else return a default if the Optional doesn't have a value. For that, you can use orElse

Combining these:

String myValue = object.map(MyObject::toString).orElse(null);

Upvotes: 12

CompilaMente
CompilaMente

Reputation: 399

You could use #orElse or orElseThrow to improve the readbility of your code.

Optional<MyObject> object = someMethod();
String myValue = object.orElse(new MyObject()).getValue();

Optional<MyObject> object = someMethod();
String myValue = object.orElseThrow(RuntimeException::new).getValue();

Upvotes: 22

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