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The Optional class, introduced in Java 8, serves as a container that may or may not hold a non-null value. Its primary purpose is to mitigate the occurrence of NullPointerExceptions, a common issue in Java programming. By using Optional, developers can write cleaner and more concise code, as it encourages explicit handling of absent values. This class is part of the java.util package and implements the Null Object pattern, which reduces the need for null checks. Overall, the Optional class enhances code readability and maintainability by clearly indicating when a value may be missing.

Optional class members

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Achieving coherence in a class state is not always an easy task. For instance, sometimes, you want to have a member or two that can simply not be set. Instead of creating another class for such a case...

Optional Class in Java 8: Making Your Code More Clear and Concise .

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The Optional class in Java 8 is a container object which is used to contain a value that might or might not be present. It was introduced as a way to help reduce the number of NullPointerExceptions th...

Optionals

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Optionals are types that deal with scenarios involving the potential presence or absence of a value ( nil ). Syntax In Swift, a non-optional variable should not be set to nil . Rather, the optional ty...

Why Bother With Optional?

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Use Optional for No More Surprise everyone know findUser might not find anything. No more surprise! The Golden Rules of Optional 🏆 1. Return Types Only, Please! 🚫 Use Optional only for method return...

Using Optionals

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Supporting Methods That Cannot Produce a Result We already covered several uses of the Optional class, especially in the case where you are calling a terminal operation on a stream that does not have...

Null Check vs Optional? Are they same

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When this question was asked in an interview, like everyone I answered “Java 8 has introduced this new class Optional in java.util package. By using Optional, we are avoiding null checks and can speci...

Difference between Java 8 Optional class orElse and orElseGet methods.

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Hello Readers,Java 8 introduces a number of new features like Lambda expressions, Method references, Functional interfaces, Stream API, Default methods, etc to make a developer's life easy. One of the...

Java 8 — Optional — Why and When to Use them?

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In Java programming, null values can be a source of frustration and errors. So to address this issue, Java 8 introduced the Optional class, a container object that can either contain a non-null value ...

An argument for using Optional as input parameters

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This article may be the hardest I wrote so far here. Not because it is really technical nor because it required a lot of research prior, but because it is controversial and I had to be sure that the a...

Simplest Possible Class

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class TrivialClass {} A class consists at a minimum of the class keyword, a name, and a body, which might be empty. You instantiate a class with the new operator. TrivialClass tc = new TrivialClass();...

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This week, I learned about a nifty “new” feature of Optional that I want to share in this post. It's available since Java 9, so its novelty is relative. Nowadays, it’s probably more adequate to use…