Mapping Maps With Method References

I just learned about “method reference” notation in Java 8 thanks to Intellij IDEA code hints.

Consider the following code:

public class MapMap
{
   Map<String, String> map;
   
   public static void map(Object key, Object value)
   {
      System.out.println(key + ":" + value);
   }
   
   public void mapmap()
   { //...see implementations below }
}

I knew this:

/* loop */ 
for (Map.Entry entry: map.entrySet()) 
{ 
  map(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue()); 
}

could be replaced with this:

/* lambda expression */ 
map.forEach((key, value) -> map(key, value);

but I did not know about this:

/* method reference */ 
map.forEach(MapMap::map);

See the full gist here

	import java.util.Map;
	public class MapMap
	{
	Map<String, String> map;
	public static void map(Object key, Object value)
	{
	System.out.println(key + ":" + value);
	}
	public void mapmap()
	{
	/* loop */
	for (Map.Entry entry: map.entrySet())
	{
	map(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
	}
	/* lambda expression */
	map.forEach((key,value) –> {
	map(key, value);
	});
	/* simplified lambda */
	map.forEach((key,value) –> map(key, value));
	/* method reference */
	map.forEach(MapMap::map);
	}
	}

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See here for the official documentation on method references:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/methodreferences.html