Java 8 LongSupplier explained with code samples
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In this blog post, I will be explaining how the Java 8 functional interface LongSupplier works. To know more about functional interfaces, you can refer this blog post.
The LongSupplier interface provides a method called getAsLong. This method does not accept any arguments. It returns a Long data type. The LongSupplier interface is a specialization of the Supplier interface that returns an Long. To see an example of the Supplier interface, refer to this blog post.
LongSupplier example
Consider the following code snippet:
LongSupplier getRandom = () -> new Random().nextLong();
System.out.println("Random number 1 = "+getRandom.getAsLong());
System.out.println("Random number 2 = "+getRandom.getAsLong());
Here, we have implemented the LongSupplier.getAsLong method using a lambda expression. This getAsLong method simple returns a random integer less than 100. So when this code is executed, it will print output similar to the following:
Random number 1 = -1689842518791524672 Random number 2 = 8225865813273814162
You can get the source code for this example along with other code for other Java 8 examples at the Github repository here.
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