RFR(s): 8060192: Add default method Collection.toArray(generator) (original) (raw)

Paul Sandoz paul.sandoz at oracle.com
Tue Dec 5 18:47:19 UTC 2017

On 4 Dec 2017, at 19:20, Stuart Marks <stuart.marks at oracle.com> wrote:

Hi all, Please review this small enhancement to add a default method Collection.toArray(generator) that takes a function that creates the destination array. This is analogous to Stream.toArray(generator). Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8060192

345 *

Suppose {@code x} is a collection known to contain only strings. 346 * The following code can be used to dump the collection into a newly 347 * allocated array of {@code String}:

Make it an API note? (same for toArray(T[])

352 * @implSpec 353 * The default implementation calls the generator function with zero 354 * and then passes the resulting array to {@link #toArray(T[])}.

That’s reasonable. I pondered about being vague and specifying a value in the range if [0, size()), to allow wiggle room for using 0 or size().

360 * @throws ArrayStoreException if the runtime type of any element in this 361 * collection is not assignable to the {@linkplain Class#getComponentType 362 * runtime component type} of array returned by the generator function

s/of array returned by the generator function/of the generated array/ ?

Paul.

Webrev:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~smarks/reviews/8060192/webrev.0/ Thanks, s'marks

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