FlatMapper
Brian Goetz
brian.goetz at oracle.com
Tue Feb 12 10:57:56 PST 2013
Since the name doesn't appear in implementations often, we can use a
more descriptive name, even if it is long, such as
mapAndFlattenInto
Would that be better?
On 2/12/2013 1:49 PM, Joe Bowbeer wrote:
> A verb that had some relation to "flat" would be nice - instead of
> explode, which doesn't.
>
> flatten
> extrude
> ??
>
> On Feb 12, 2013 10:42 AM, "Brian Goetz" <brian.goetz at oracle.com
> <mailto:brian.goetz at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
> Here's where things have currently landed with FlatMapper -- this is
> a type in java.util.stream, with nested specializations.
>
> Full bikeshed season is now open. Are we OK with the name
> explodeInto()? Is this general enough to join the ranks of Function
> and Supplier as top-level types in java.util.function?
>
> @FunctionalInterface
> public interface FlatMapper<T, U> {
> void explodeInto(T element, Consumer<U> sink);
>
> @FunctionalInterface
> interface ToInt<T> {
> void explodeInto(T element, IntConsumer sink);
> }
>
> @FunctionalInterface
> interface ToLong<T> {
> void explodeInto(T element, LongConsumer sink);
> }
>
> @FunctionalInterface
> interface ToDouble<T> {
> void explodeInto(T element, DoubleConsumer sink);
> }
>
> @FunctionalInterface
> interface OfIntToInt {
> void explodeInto(int element, IntConsumer sink);
> }
>
> @FunctionalInterface
> interface OfLongToLong {
> void explodeInto(long element, LongConsumer sink);
> }
>
> @FunctionalInterface
> interface OfDoubleToDouble {
> void explodeInto(double element, DoubleConsumer sink);
> }
> }
>
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