Collectors.toMap() keyMapper -- more succinct expression?

Question

I'm trying to come up with a more succinct expression for the "keyMapper" function parameter in the following Collectors.toMap() call:

List<Person> roster = ...;  Map<String, Person> map =      roster         .stream()         .collect(             Collectors.toMap(                 new Function<Person, String>() {                      public String apply(Person p) { return p.getLast(); }                  },                 Function.<Person>identity())); 

It seems that I should be able to inline it using a lambda expression, but I cannot come up with one that compiles. (I'm quite new to lambdas, so that's not much of a surprise.)

Thanks.

--> Update:

As noted in the accepted answer

Person::getLast 

is what I was looking for, and is something I had tried. However, the BETA_8 nightly build of Eclipse 4.3 was the problem -- it flagged that as wrong. When compiled from the command-line (which I should have done before posting), it worked. So, time to file a bug with eclipse.org.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use a lambda:

Collectors.toMap(p -> p.getLast(), Function.identity()) 

or, more concisely, you can use a method reference using :::

Collectors.toMap(Person::getLast, Function.identity()) 

and instead of Function.identity, you can simply use the equivalent lambda:

Collectors.toMap(Person::getLast, p -> p) 

If you use Netbeans you should get hints whenever an anonymous class can be replaced by a lambda.

Answer 2

List<Person> roster = ...;  Map<String, Person> map =      roster         .stream()         .collect(             Collectors.toMap(p -> p.getLast(), p -> p)         ); 

that would be the translation, but i havent run this or used the API. most likely you can substitute p -> p, for Function.identity(). and statically import toMap(...)