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The Optional class in Java 8 is a powerful feature designed to handle the presence or absence of values in a more elegant way. It serves as a container that can either hold a non-null value or be empty, thereby reducing the risk of NullPointerExceptions in your code. By using Optional, developers are encouraged to explicitly handle cases where a value may not be present, leading to cleaner and more maintainable code. This class is part of the java.util package and provides various methods to interact with the contained value, enhancing code readability and robustness.

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...

Optional

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Versions [{“Name”:“Java SE 8”,“GroupName”:null},{“Name”:“Java SE 9 (Early Access)”,“GroupName”:null}] Introduction Optional is a container object which may or may not contain a non-null value. If a va...

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...

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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();...

Mastering Java Optional: From Boring Null Checks to Elegant Code

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Java Optional Imagine you’re writing code, and you keep tripping over null checks. It’s like walking through a minefield — every step feels risky, and one wrong move could crash your program. Java’s O...

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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…

Java Optional Is Not So Obvious

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Optional can save you from NullPointerException, but it can also bring overcomplexity in your code.