Java Lambda expression to avoid multiple iterations

Question

Folks,

Consider the following example, given a list of Trade objects my code needs to return an array containing trade volume for 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days and all times.

Using plain old iterator this requires only a single iteration over the collection.

I'm trying to do the same using a Java 8 streams and Lambda expressions. I came up with this code, which looks elegant, works fine, but requires 4 iterations over the list:

public static final int DAY = 24 * 60 * 60;

public double[] getTradeVolumes(List<Trade> trades, int timeStamp) {
    double volume = trades.stream().mapToDouble(Trade::getVolume).sum();
    double volume30d = trades.stream().filter(trade -> trade.getTimestamp() + 30 * DAY > timeStamp).mapToDouble(Trade::getVolume).sum();
    double volume7d = trades.stream().filter(trade -> trade.getTimestamp() + 7 * DAY > timeStamp).mapToDouble(Trade::getVolume).sum();
    double volume24h = trades.stream().filter(trade -> trade.getTimestamp() + DAY > timeStamp).mapToDouble(Trade::getVolume).sum();
    return new double[]{volume24h, volume7d, volume30d, volume};
}

How can I achieve the same using only a single iteration over the list ?

Answer 1

This problem is similar to the "summary statistics" collector. Take a look at the IntSummaryStatistics class:

public class IntSummaryStatistics implements IntConsumer {
    private long count;
    private long sum;
    ...

    public void accept(int value) {
        ++count;
        sum += value;
        min = Math.min(min, value);
        max = Math.max(max, value);
   }

   ...

}

It is designed to work with collect(); here's the implementation of IntStream.summaryStatistics()

public final IntSummaryStatistics summaryStatistics() {
    return collect(IntSummaryStatistics::new, IntSummaryStatistics::accept,
                   IntSummaryStatistics::combine);
}

The benefit of writing a Collector like this is then your custom aggregation can run in parallel.

Answer 2

Thanks Brian, I ended up implementing the code below, it's not as simple as I hoped but at least it iterates only once, its parallel ready and it passes my unit tests. Any improvements ideas are welcomed.

public double[] getTradeVolumes(List<Trade> trades, int timeStamp) {
    TradeVolume tradeVolume = trades.stream().collect(
            () -> new TradeVolume(timeStamp),
            TradeVolume::accept,
            TradeVolume::combine);
    return tradeVolume.getVolume();
}

public static final int DAY = 24 * 60 * 60;

static class TradeVolume {

    private int timeStamp;
    private double[] volume = new double[4];

    TradeVolume(int timeStamp) {
        this.timeStamp = timeStamp;
    }

    public void accept(Trade trade) {
        long tradeTime = trade.getTimestamp();
        double tradeVolume = trade.getVolume();
        volume[3] += tradeVolume;
        if (!(tradeTime + 30 * DAY > timeStamp)) {
            return;
        }
        volume[2] += tradeVolume;
        if (!(tradeTime + 7 * DAY > timeStamp)) {
            return;
        }
        volume[1] += tradeVolume;
        if (!(tradeTime + DAY > timeStamp)) {
            return;
        }
        volume[0] += tradeVolume;
    }

    public void combine(TradeVolume tradeVolume) {
        volume[0] += tradeVolume.volume[0];
        volume[1] += tradeVolume.volume[1];
        volume[2] += tradeVolume.volume[2];
        volume[3] += tradeVolume.volume[3];
    }

    public double[] getVolume() {
        return volume;
    }
}