Using streams for a null-safe conversion from an array to list

Question

I'm looking for a succinct way to rewrite a piece of Java code so that it uses streams to convert an array to a list in a null-safe fashion. Here's the original code:

public MailObject toMailObject(final String[] ccAddresses) {
    final MailObject mailObject = new MailObject();

    // line of code to be altered
    mailObject.setCcAddresses(ccAddresses == null 
        ? Collections.emptyList() : Arrays.asList(ccAddresses));

    // other necessary code

    return mailObject;
}

I've thought of doing something like this:

// psuedocode that obviously doesn't compile
Optional.ofNullable(ccAddresses).SOMETHING.orElse(Collections.emptyList());

where SOMETHING would be along the lines of:

Arrays.stream(ints).collect(Collectors.toList());

but I can't seem to get the syntax quite right.

This question was helpful but didn't exactly address my issue. Could anyone point me in the right direction? I feel like I'm close...

Thank you very much for your time.

Answer 1

You might use the map :

List<String> ccAddrs = Optional.ofNullable(ccAddress)
                               .map(Arrays::asList)
                               .orElse(Collections.emptyList())