Map API Improvements: Fetch Operations
Explore key Java 8 Map API enhancements that streamline value fetching and updating. Learn to use getOrDefault, putIfAbsent, compute, computeIfAbsent, and computeIfPresent to write cleaner, more readable map operations without complex if/else code.
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If you have used Map then you must have faced a challenge where you needed to update the value of a key in the Map. Now, before updating, you must first check if the value is present in the Map, get the current value, update it, and again put the value in the Map. This is quite a cumbersome process, and it involves using lots of if/else statements. This kind of code is difficult to understand and fix if any issues occur.
Thankfully, Java 8 has introduced some new ...