Streams java 8 Object and String in Map

Question

I got 3 classes.

• Angestellte (simply contains some stuff like names etc.)
• Department (only contains a String)
• and ttest (for testing obviously)

I want to put all the workers "Angestellte" into their Departments. So basically the output should be:

Personalabteilung: 4
Buchhaltung: 3 
Fertigung: 3

I am trying to put the Map as Map with Department and Long but ultimately I would like to have the Map with String and Long.

I also think my Collectors.counting() doesn't work that way I put it.

I don't really know how to address my Stream of Strings after I have already mapped it. Thats why I put three ? in the code.

import java.util.*;
import java.util.function.Supplier;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
public class ttest {
public static void main(String[] args){
 Department d1 = new Department("Personalabteilung");
 Department d2 = new Department("Buchhaltung");
 Department d3 = new Department("Fertigung");
 List<Angestellte> AlleAng = Arrays.asList(
 new Angestellte("Sandra","Bullock",d3,3450, "Female"),
 new Angestellte("Yutta","Knie",d1,2800, "Female"),
 new Angestellte("Ludwig","Herr",d3,3850, "Male"),
 new Angestellte("Peter","Pan",d2,1850, "Male"),
 new Angestellte("Nicky","Smith",d3,2100, "Female"),
 new Angestellte("Herbert","Rotwein",d2,2450, "Male"),
 new Angestellte("Sandra","Siech",d1,1100, "Female"),
 new Angestellte("Florian","Schwarzpeter",d2,2800, "Male"),
 new Angestellte("Herrietta","Glas",d1,2100, "Female"),
 new Angestellte("Brock","Builder",d1,6000, "Male"));
Map<Department, Long> DepAnz = AlleAng.stream()
 .map(a -> a.getDep())
 .collect(Collectors.toMap(a.getDep???, Collectors.counting()));
}
}

Answer 1

If you want to group by department and your getter is called getDep() You can do

Map<Department, Long> DepAnz = AlleAng.stream()
 .collect(Collectors.groupingBy(a -> a.getDep(), Collectors.counting()));

• Ray: It's actually Angestellte::getDep (without parentheses). Just as an additional explanation: The map function will change the type from Stream<Angestellte> to Stream<Department>. But this can be skipped as explained in the response.
• Timo N.: works for me now, but what if i want to go deeper and get the return String vom Department to have a Map<String, Long> ? thx so far
• Peter Lawrey: @TimoN. Which method can you call on the Department to get the String you want?

Answer 2

You need to use a group by:

Map<Department, Long> DepAnz =
 AlleAng.stream()
 .collect(Collectors.groupingBy(Angestellte::getDep, Collectors.counting()));

The groupingBy(classifier, downstream) collector is a collector that collects the Stream element into a Map where the keys are returned by the classifier and the values are the result of applying the downstream collector to all Stream elements having an equal key. In this case, what we want is to count the values so we use Collectors.counting() as the downstream collector.

If you want to group by the the name of the department instead, you could have, assmuming the getter is called .getName() to retrieve the name:

Map<String, Long> DepAnz =
 AlleAng.stream()
 .collect(Collectors.groupingBy(a -> a.getDep().getName(), Collectors.counting()));

This will return a count of all the different name of departements.

Answer 3

 Map<String, Long> map = AlleAng.stream().collect(Collectors.toMap(a -> a.getDept().getName(), a -> 1L, (Long acc, Long newValue) -> acc + newValue));

This is such a verbose usage of lambdas to achieve what you need. Use a toMap Collector in order to map a specific key and value based on the actual Angestellte references you have got. Of course, the groupers functions are best suited, but this works as a generic example for map grouping by some criterion