JAVA的supplier_在Java中使用Supplier有什么好处？ (What is the advantage of using Supplier in Java?)...

2015-11-27 15:53:08

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Reading about the new Supplier interface I can't see any advantage of its usage.

We can see bellow an example of it.

class Vehicle{

public void drive(){

System.out.println("Driving vehicle ...");

}

}

class Car extends Vehicle{

@Override

public void drive(){

System.out.println("Driving car...");

}

}

public class SupplierDemo {

static void driveVehicle(Supplier extends Vehicle> supplier){

Vehicle vehicle = supplier.get();

vehicle.drive();

}

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

//Using Lambda expression

driveVehicle(()-> new Vehicle());

driveVehicle(()-> new Car());

}

As we can see in that example, the driveVehicle method expects a Supplier as argument.

Why don't we just change it to expect a Vehicle?

public class SupplierDemo {

static void driveVehicle(Vehicle vehicle){

vehicle.drive();

}

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

//Using Lambda expression

driveVehicle(new Vehicle());

driveVehicle(new Car());

}

What is the advantage of using Supplier?

EDIT: The answers on the question Java 8 Supplier & Consumer explanation for the layperson doesn't explain the benefits of using Supplier.

There is a comment asking about it, but it wasn't answered.

What is the benefit of this rather than calling the method directly?

Is it because the Supplier can act like an intermediary and hand off

that "return" value?