Convenient methods in old Iterable

[Marcos Antonio]

Thank you for the answer, Paul. What I meant was that I had code like this: Iterable<Employee> i = employees.filter(...); Now I called i.isEmpty() or i.count(). The code was converted to this: Stream<Employee> s = employees.stream().filter(...); What is the best way to know now if the stream is empty or its count? Thank you. Marcos > Subject: Re: Convenient methods in old Iterable
> From: paul.sandoz at oracle.com
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:00:44 +0200
> CC: lambda-dev at openjdk.java.net
> To: marcos_antonio_ps at hotmail.com
> 
> On Oct 19, 2012, at 3:53 AM, Marcos Antonio <marcos_antonio_ps at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello! The methods isEmpty() and count() in Iterable were very convenient to me.
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> An Iterable may not know it's size, or the elements of the Iterable cannot be efficiently counted. See the Sized interface.
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> > Now with Stream do I always need to convert the stream to a collection or an array (into() and toArray() methods) to get the same functionality or is there an easier way? Thank you. 		 	   		  
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> You might be able to check if the Iterable is an instance of Sized.
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> Paul.