Java 8 Finding Specific Element in List with Lambda

As you probably know in Java 8 we can use Lambda expression for different manipulations with collections.

If you have a List with some custom objects inside and you want to find specific element in it you can use stream().filter procedure of Lambda instead of ForEach as you probably used to. Below is a simple example of this case.

List<RepositoryFile> fileList = response.getRepositoryFileList();
RepositoryFile file1 = fileList.stream().filter(f -> f.getName().contains("my-file.txt")).findFirst().orElse(null);

So here we have filtered entire collection by specific condition. Notice that due to orElse(null) at the end of the expression if no file was found then Lambda will return null.