Java Streams Join

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The joining() method from Collectors class returns a collector that concatenates the stream of CharSequence and returns the result as a String.

The joining() method is overloaded and it has three versions:

• joining()
  concatenates all elements
• joining(CharSequence delimiter)
  uses a delimiter to be used between two elements.
• joining(CharSequence delimiter, CharSequence prefix, CharSequence suffix)
  uses a delimiter, a prefix and a suffix. The prefix is added to the beginning and the suffix is added to the end.

The following code shows how to use the joining() method.

import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.Month;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
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public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    List<Employee> persons  = Employee.persons(); 
    String names = persons.stream()
        .map(Employee::getName)
        .collect(Collectors.joining());

     String  delimitedNames = persons.stream()
        .map(Employee::getName)
        .collect(Collectors.joining(", "));

     String  prefixedNames = persons.stream()
        .map(Employee::getName)
        .collect(Collectors.joining(", ", "Hello ",  ".  Goodbye."));

     System.out.println("Joined names:  "  + names); 
     System.out.println("Joined,  delimited names:  "  + delimitedNames); 
     System.out.println(prefixedNames);
  }
}

class Employee {
  public static enum Gender {
    MALE, FEMALE
  }

  private long id;
  private String name;
  private Gender gender;
  private LocalDate dob;
  private double income;

  public Employee(long id, String name, Gender gender, LocalDate dob,
      double income) {
    this.id = id;
    this.name = name;
    this.gender = gender;
    this.dob = dob;
    this.income = income;
  }

  public String getName() {
    return name;
  }
  public static List<Employee> persons() {
    Employee p1 = new Employee(1, "Jake", Gender.MALE, LocalDate.of(1971,
        Month.JANUARY, 1), 2343.0);
    Employee p2 = new Employee(2, "Jack", Gender.MALE, LocalDate.of(1972,
        Month.JULY, 21), 7100.0);
    Employee p3 = new Employee(3, "Jane", Gender.FEMALE, LocalDate.of(1973,
        Month.MAY, 29), 5455.0);
    Employee p4 = new Employee(4, "Jode", Gender.MALE, LocalDate.of(1974,
        Month.OCTOBER, 16), 1800.0);
    Employee p5 = new Employee(5, "Jeny", Gender.FEMALE, LocalDate.of(1975,
        Month.DECEMBER, 13), 1234.0);
    Employee p6 = new Employee(6, "Jason", Gender.MALE, LocalDate.of(1976,
        Month.JUNE, 9), 3211.0);

    List<Employee> persons = Arrays.asList(p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6);

    return persons;
  }
}

The code above generates the following result.

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