Java Stream Filter

Java stream provides a method filter() to filter stream elements on the basis of given predicate. Suppose you want to get only even elements of your list then you can do this easily with the help of filter method.

This method takes predicate as an argument and returns a stream of consisting of resulted elements.

Signature

The signature of Stream filter() method is given below:

Parameter

predicate: It takes Predicate reference as an argument. Predicate is a functional interface. So, you can also pass lambda expression here.

Return

It returns a new stream.

Java Stream filter() example

In the following example, we are fetching and iterating filtered data.

import java.util.*;
class Product{
	int id;
	String name;
	float price;
	public Product(int id, String name, float price) {
		this.id = id;
		this.name = name;
		this.price = price;
	}
}
public class JavaStreamExample {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		List<Product> productsList = new ArrayList<Product>();
		//Adding Products
		productsList.add(new Product(1,"HP Laptop",25000f));
		productsList.add(new Product(2,"Dell Laptop",30000f));
		productsList.add(new Product(3,"Lenevo Laptop",28000f));
		productsList.add(new Product(4,"Sony Laptop",28000f));
		productsList.add(new Product(5,"Apple Laptop",90000f));
		productsList.stream()
					.filter(p ->p.price> 30000)	// filtering price
					.map(pm ->pm.price)			// fetching price
					.forEach(System.out::println);	// iterating price
	}
}

Output:

90000.0

Java Stream filter() example 2

In the following example, we are fetching filtered data as a list.

import java.util.*;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
class Product{
	int id;
	String name;
	float price;
	public Product(int id, String name, float price) {
		this.id = id;
		this.name = name;
		this.price = price;
	}
}
public class JavaStreamExample {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		List<Product> productsList = new ArrayList<Product>();
		//Adding Products
		productsList.add(new Product(1,"HP Laptop",25000f));
		productsList.add(new Product(2,"Dell Laptop",30000f));
		productsList.add(new Product(3,"Lenevo Laptop",28000f));
		productsList.add(new Product(4,"Sony Laptop",28000f));
		productsList.add(new Product(5,"Apple Laptop",90000f));
		List<Float> pricesList =	productsList.stream()
					.filter(p ->p.price> 30000)	// filtering price
					.map(pm ->pm.price)			// fetching price
					.collect(Collectors.toList());
		System.out.println(pricesList);
	}
}

Output: