Is there any short-form for overriding methods in Java with method references JAVA?

Question

I keep having situations where this would be really handy

component.addWindowListener() { new WindowListener() {
        // quick overriding to make syntax less verbose
        windowClosing(e) -> Foo::doFoo;

        windowActivated(e) -> Foo::doFoo;
    }
}

currently this would mostly look like this:

component.addWindowListener() new WindowListener() {
    @Override
    public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
        Foo.doFoo(e);
    }

    @Override
    public void windowActivated(WindowEvent e) {
        Foo.doFoo(e);
    }
}

Where the method reference points to some function:

public static void doFoo(WindowEvent e) {
    // does code
}

Is anything like this possible? because the whole overriding of non-functional interfaces is quite quite frustrating.

Answer 1

There is no such language feature, but if you have to implement an interface so often that this verbosity becomes relevant, you can write your own adapter.

E.g., with the adapter below, you could write

f.addWindowListener(WindowAdapter.window()
    .onClosing(ev -> ev.getWindow().dispose())
    .onClosed(ev -> System.out.println("closed"))
);

or utilizing the power of import static:

f.addWindowListener(window().onClosing(ev -> System.out.println("closing")));

so, to stay with your example

f.addWindowListener(window().onClosing(Foo::doFoo).onActivated(Foo::doFoo));

Adapter:

public class WindowAdapter implements WindowListener {
    static Consumer<WindowEvent> NO_OP = ev -> {};
    public static WindowAdapter window() {
        return new WindowAdapter(NO_OP, NO_OP, NO_OP, NO_OP, NO_OP, NO_OP, NO_OP);
    }
    final Consumer<WindowEvent> opened, closing, closed,
        iconified, deiconified, activated, deactivated;

    public WindowAdapter(Consumer<WindowEvent> opened, Consumer<WindowEvent> closing,
        Consumer<WindowEvent> closed, Consumer<WindowEvent> iconified,
        Consumer<WindowEvent> deiconified, Consumer<WindowEvent> activated,
        Consumer<WindowEvent> deactivated) {
        this.opened = opened;
        this.closing = closing;
        this.closed = closed;
        this.iconified = iconified;
        this.deiconified = deiconified;
        this.activated = activated;
        this.deactivated = deactivated;
    }
    public WindowAdapter onOpened(Consumer<WindowEvent> c) {
        Objects.requireNonNull(c);
        return new WindowAdapter(opened==NO_OP? c: opened.andThen(c),
            closing, closed, iconified, deiconified, activated, deactivated);
    }
    public WindowAdapter onClosing(Consumer<WindowEvent> c) {
        Objects.requireNonNull(c);
        return new WindowAdapter(opened, closing==NO_OP? c: closing.andThen(c),
            closed, iconified, deiconified, activated, deactivated);
    }
    public WindowAdapter onClosed(Consumer<WindowEvent> c) {
        Objects.requireNonNull(c);
        return new WindowAdapter(opened, closing, closed==NO_OP? c: closed.andThen(c),
            iconified, deiconified, activated, deactivated);
    }
    public WindowAdapter onIconified(Consumer<WindowEvent> c) {
        Objects.requireNonNull(c);
        return new WindowAdapter(opened, closing, closed,
          iconified==NO_OP? c: iconified.andThen(c), deiconified, activated, deactivated);
    }
    public WindowAdapter onDeiconified(Consumer<WindowEvent> c) {
        Objects.requireNonNull(c);
        return new WindowAdapter(opened, closing, closed, iconified,
            deiconified==NO_OP? c: deiconified.andThen(c), activated, deactivated);
    }
    public WindowAdapter onActivated(Consumer<WindowEvent> c) {
        Objects.requireNonNull(c);
        return new WindowAdapter(opened, closing, closed, iconified,
            deiconified, activated==NO_OP? c: activated.andThen(c), deactivated);
    }
    public WindowAdapter onDeactivated(Consumer<WindowEvent> c) {
        Objects.requireNonNull(c);
        return new WindowAdapter(opened, closing, closed, iconified,
            deiconified, activated, deactivated==NO_OP? c: deactivated.andThen(c));
    }
    @Override public void windowOpened(WindowEvent e) { opened.accept(e); }
    @Override public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) { closing.accept(e); }
    @Override public void windowClosed(WindowEvent e) { closed.accept(e); }
    @Override public void windowIconified(WindowEvent e) { iconified.accept(e); }
    @Override public void windowDeiconified(WindowEvent e) { deiconified.accept(e); }
    @Override public void windowActivated(WindowEvent e) { activated.accept(e); }
    @Override public void windowDeactivated(WindowEvent e) { deactivated.accept(e); }
}