List is de-duplicated according to an attribute of an object
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
List<User> list = new Lists.newArrayList();
list.add(new user(1,"Zhang San", "ShangHai"));
list.add(new user(2, "Li Si", "Beijing"));
list.add(new user(3, "Wang Wu", "Jinan"));
list.add(new user(4, "Li Si", "Beijing"));
// de-duplicate the list according to the city in the list
newList = list.stream().filter(distinctByKey(User::getCity)).collect(Collectors.toList());
}
private static <T> Predicate<T> distinctByKey(Function<? super T, Object> keyExtractor) {
Map<Object, Boolean> seen = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
return t -> seen.putIfAbsent(keyExtractor.apply(t), Boolean.TRUE) == null;
}
}