Logging inside Stream

Question

I am trying to convert this piece of code to Java 8 stream:

if (list != null && !list.isEmpty()) {
    Actor actor = null;
    for (Actor actor : list) {
        log.info("Actor being read: "  actor.getCode());
        List<String> areaList = areaDAO.getArea(actor.getCode());
        if (!areaList.isEmpty()) {
            actor.setArea(areaList.get(0));
            log.info("Area{" + areaList.get(0)
                 + "} is fetched for actor{" + actor.getCode() + "}.");
        }
        this.getContext().setReadCount(1);
    }
}

However I am not sure how to deal with logging in this case? Is it a good practice? Appreciate your help. Thanks

Answer 1

Often we put logging into our code to support debugging. In this case I would recommend you to have a look at the peek method.

Here is a hint:

   List<Actor> actors = ...;

    actors.
        stream().
        peek(a -> System.out.println("Processing code: " + a.getCode())).
        forEach(a -> {/*Do something here*/});

From the javadocs:

API Note: This method exists mainly to support debugging, where you want to see the elements as they flow past a certain point in a pipeline: