General Purpose Functional Interfaces in Java 8

Java 8 introduces few general purpose functional interfaces based on the input and output to the single abstract method.

 

Most common ones are:

  1. Predicate<T> whose method

    1. takes in an argument of type T and

    2. rerturn a boolean.

  2. Consumer<T> whose method

    1. takes in an argument of type T and

    2. rerturn nothing (void).

  3. Function<T,R> whose method

    1. takes in an argument of type T and

    2. rerturn type R.

  4. Supplier<T> whose method

    1. takes no arguments and

    2. rerturn type T.

  5. UnaryOperator<T> whose method

    1. takes in an argument of type T and

    2. rerturn type T.

  6. BinaryOperator<T,T> whose method

    1. takes in an argument of type (T,T) and

    2. rerturn type T.

 

TODO

Provide sImple examples for each of these.

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