java 函数对象,Java中的函数对象

I wanna implement a javascript like method in java , is this possible ?

Say , I have a Person class :

public class Person {

private String name ;

private int age ;

// constructor ,accessors are omitted

}

And a list with Person objects:

Person p1 = new Person("Jenny",20);

Person p2 = new Person("Kate",22);

List pList = Arrays.asList(new Person[] {p1,p2});

I wanna implement a method like this:

modList(pList,new Operation (Person p) {

incrementAge(Person p) { p.setAge(p.getAge() + 1)};

});

modList receives two params , one is a list , the other is the "Function object", it loops the list ,and apply this function to every element in the list. In functional programming language,this is easy , I don't know how java do this? Maybe could be done through dynamic proxy, does that have a performance trade off compares to native for loop ?

解决方案

You can do it with an interface and an anonymous inner class implementing it, like

Person p1 = new Person("Jenny",20);

Person p2 = new Person("Kate",22);

List pList = Arrays.asList(p1, p2);

interface Operation {

abstract void execute(Person p);

}

public void modList(List list, Operation op) {

for (Person p : list)

op.execute(p);

}

modList(pList, new Operation {

public void execute(Person p) { p.setAge(p.getAge() + 1)};

});

Note that with varargs in Java5, the call to Arrays.asList can be simplified as shown above.

Update: A generified version of the above:

interface Operation {

abstract void execute(E elem);

}

public void modList(List extends E> list, Operation op) {

for (E elem : list)

op.execute(elem);

}

modList(pList, new Operation() {

public void execute(Person p) { p.setAge(p.getAge() + 1); }

});

Note that with the above definition of modList, you can execute an Operation on e.g. a List too (provided Student is a subclass of Person). A plain List parameter type would not allow this.