Create List of Employees with dynamic values using Java streams

Question

I have use case where I have to create List of default employees with incrementing id,

List<Employee> employeeList = new ArrayList<>();
int count = 0;
while (count++ <= 100){
    Employee employee = new Employee(count, "a"+count);
    employeeList.add(employee);
}

I don't have any collection on which I could use stream. Can we do it in functional way?

Answer 1

You can use IntStream with rangeClosed(int startInclusive, int endInclusive) to generate the count

List<Employee> employeeList = IntStream.rangeClosed(0,100)
                                       .boxed()
                                       .map(count-> new Employee(count, "a"+count))
                                       .collect(Collectors.toList());

Or you can use Stream.iterate

List<Employee> employeeList = Stream.iterate(0, n -> n + 1)
                                    .limit(100)
                                    .map(i -> new Employee(i, "a" + i))
                                    .collect(Collectors.toList())