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The Eclipse Collections Project

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Eclipse Collections is a comprehensive collections library for Java. The library enables productivity and performance by delivering an expressive and efficient set of APIs and types. The iteration protocol was inspired by the Smalltalk collection framework, and the collections are compatible with the Java Collection Framework types.

Why Eclipse Collections?

• Productivity
  • Rich, functional, and fluent APIs with great symmetry
  • List, Set, Bag, Stack, Map, Multimap, BiMap, Interval Types
  • Readable, Mutable, and Immutable Types
  • Mutable and Immutable Collection Factories
  • Adapters and Utility classes for JCF Types
• Performance
  • Memory Efficient Containers
  • Optimized Eager, Lazy and Parallel APIs
  • Primitive Collections for all primitive types

Learn Eclipse Collections

• Eclipse Collections Katas, a fun way to help you learn idiomatic Eclipse Collections usage.
  • Start Here - Pet Kata
  • Continue Here - Company Kata
• Eclipse Collections Reference Guide and Javadoc
• Articles and Blogs

Acquiring Eclipse Collections

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.eclipse.collections</groupId>
  <artifactId>eclipse-collections-api</artifactId>
  <version>10.2.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.eclipse.collections</groupId>
  <artifactId>eclipse-collections</artifactId>
  <version>10.2.0</version>
</dependency>

Gradle

implementation 'org.eclipse.collections:eclipse-collections-api:10.2.0'
implementation 'org.eclipse.collections:eclipse-collections:10.2.0'

OSGi Bundle

Eclipse software repository location: http://download.eclipse.org/collections/10.2.0/repository

Some Quick Examples

Eclipse Collections puts iteration methods directly on the container types. Here's several code examples that demonstrate the simple and flexible style of programming with Eclipse Collections.

First, we will define a simple class named Person with a first and last name, getters and a constructor.

public class Person
{
    private final String firstName, lastName;
    ...
    public boolean lastNameEquals(String name)
    {
        return name.equals(this.lastName);
    }
}

Collect (aka map, transform)

First we will create a MutableList with three instances of the Person class.

MutableList<Person> people = Lists.mutable.with(
        new Person("Sally", "Smith"),
        new Person("Ted", "Watson"),
        new Person("Mary", "Williams"));

Then we will collect their last names into a new MutableList, and finally output the names to a comma delimited String using makeString.

MutableList<String> lastNames = people.collect(person -> person.getLastName());
Assert.assertEquals("Smith, Watson, Williams", lastNames.makeString());

The lambda in the example above can also be replaced with a method reference.

MutableList<String> lastNames = people.collect(Person::getLastName);

Eclipse Collections has support for both Mutable and Immutable collections, and the return types of methods are covariant. Here we use the same Lists factory to create an ImmutableList.

ImmutableList<Person> people = Lists.immutable.with(
        new Person("Sally", "Smith"),
        new Person("Ted", "Watson"),
        new Person("Mary", "Williams"));

While the collect method on a MutableList returned a MutableList, the collect method on an ImmutableList will return an ImmutableList.

ImmutableList<String> lastNames = people.collect(Person::getLastName);
Assert.assertEquals("Smith, Watson, Williams", lastNames.makeString());

Eclipse Collections has a lazy API as well, which is available by calling the method asLazy. The method collect will now return a LazyIterable. The LazyIterable that is returned does not evaluate anything until the call to a terminal method is made. In this case, the call to makeString will force the LazyIterable to collect the last names.

LazyIterable<String> lastNames = people.asLazy().collect(Person::getLastName);
Assert.assertEquals("Smith, Watson, Williams", lastNames.makeString());

Select / Reject (aka filter / !filter)

We can find all of the people with the last name "Smith" using the method named select.

MutableList<Person> people = Lists.mutable.with(
        new Person("Sally", "Smith"),
        new Person("Ted", "Watson"),
        new Person("Mary", "Williams"));

MutableList<Person> smiths = people.select(person -> person.lastNameEquals("Smith"));
Assert.assertEquals("Smith", smiths.collect(Person::getLastName).makeString());

If we want to use a method reference, we can use the method selectWith.

MutableList<Person> smiths = people.selectWith(Person::lastNameEquals, "Smith");
Assert.assertEquals("Smith", smiths.collect(Person::getLastName).makeString());

We can find all the people who do not have a last name of "Smith" using the method named reject.

MutableList<Person> notSmiths = people.reject(person -> person.lastNameEquals("Smith"));
Assert.assertEquals("Watson, Williams", notSmiths.collect(Person::getLastName).makeString());

If we want to use a method reference, we can use the method rejectWith.

MutableList<Person> notSmiths = people.rejectWith(Person::lastNameEquals, "Smith");
Assert.assertEquals("Watson, Williams", notSmiths.collect(Person::getLastName).makeString());

Any / All / None

We can test whether any, all or none of the elements of a collection satisfy a given condition.

// Any
Assert.assertTrue(people.anySatisfy(person -> person.lastNameEquals("Smith"));
Assert.assertTrue(people.anySatisfyWith(Person::lastNameEquals, "Smith"));

// All
Assert.assertFalse(people.allSatisfy(person -> person.lastNameEquals("Smith"));
Assert.assertFalse(people.allSatisfyWith(Person::lastNameEquals, "Smith"));

// None
Assert.assertFalse(people.noneSatisfy(person -> person.lastNameEquals("Smith"));
Assert.assertFalse(people.noneSatisfyWith(Person::lastNameEquals, "Smith"));

How to Contribute

We welcome contributions! We accept contributions via pull requests here in GitHub. Please see How To Contribute to get started.

Additional information

• Project Website: http://www.eclipse.org/collections
• Eclipse PMI: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.collections
• StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/eclipse-collections
• Mailing lists: https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/collections-dev
• Forum: https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=329