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As you may have already seen, <b>Stream Gatherers</b> is now a <a href="https://openjdk.org/jeps/461" title="https://openjdk.org/jeps/461" id="LPlnk995248" class="OWAAutoLink">
Preview JEP with Candidate status</a></div>
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Work-in-progress (interfaces, implementation, tests, benches, and documentation) for JEP-461 is currently available
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here</a>.<br>
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While <a href="https://cr.openjdk.org/~vklang/Gatherers.html" title="https://cr.openjdk.org/~vklang/Gatherers.html " id="LPlnk332869" class="OWAAutoLink">
the design</a> has held up well, there are some important improvements made since the original design document was written.<br>
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Notable changes (without any particular order):</div>
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<li style="list-style-type: disc;"><b>Stream::gather()</b> now has a default implementation.<br>
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<span></span></li><li style="list-style-type: disc;"><b><span>Gatherer</span><span></span>::supplier()
</b>was renamed to <b>Gatherer::initializer()</b> to better reflect intent.<br>
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</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;"><b>Gatherer.Sink<R></b> was renamed to <b>Gatherer.Downstream<R></b> to better signal what it represents.<br>
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</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;"><b>Gatherer::collect(Collector)</b> and its companion type
<b>Gatherer.ThenCollector</b> was dropped due to compatibility concerns with existing code which operates on
<b>Collector</b>.<br>
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<div><span><b>Gatherer.Characteristics</b> have been eliminated and superseded by having default values that are used as sentinels.<br>
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(discussed further down the list)<br>
<div><span>This is important because with the Characteristics-model keeping alignment between Characteristics and actual implementation proved brittle, and under composition of Gatherers computing the union was inefficient and mostly lead to an empty set in
the end.<br>
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</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;"><span><b>Gatherer.defaultInitializer()</b>, <b>
Gatherer.defaultCombiner()</b>, and <b>Gatherer.defaultFinisher()</b> were added as static methods—these are the sentinels used to elide calling the initializer, to elide calling the combiner (avoid parallelization), and to elide calling the finisher, respectively.<br>
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</span></li><li style="list-style-type: disc;"><span><b>Gatherer::initializer()</b>, <b>Gatherer::combiner()</b>, and
<b>Gatherer::finisher()</b> default implementations return the respective sentinels.<br>
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</span></li><li style="list-style-type: disc;"><span>A subtype of <b>Integrator</b> named <b>
Greedy</b> was added, together with a factory method to guide lambda-to-nominal-type conversion. This allows creators of Gatherers to signal that an
<b>Integrator</b> will never initiate a short-circuit (but may relay one from downstream), and that is available during evaluation to determine if the operation can short-circuit or not.</span>
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</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;"><span>Factories for creating anonymous Gatherers were expanded upon to include
<b>Gatherer.of()</b> and <b>Gatherer.ofSequential()</b> with different sets of parameters, primarily to make it more ergonomical and easier to read and write the code using those factories.</span>
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</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;"><span>A curated set of initial built-in Gatherers is located in
<b>java.util.stream.Gatherers</b><br>
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I recently presented <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fMFa6OqlY8" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fMFa6OqlY8" id="LPlnkOWALinkPreview_2" class="OWAAutoLink">
Gatherers at Devoxx</a>, which I'd recommend watching for an introduction to the feature.<br>
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<b>Viktor Klang</b></div>
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