Method references

Lucky that we have Map, which pairs order items with product information, so we can invoke get on Map:

.map(piMap::get)

The map method is again something that has the same name as something else in Java and should not be confused. While the Map class is a data structure, the map method in the Stream interface performs mapping of the stream elements. The argument of the method is a Function (recall that this is a functional interface we recently discussed). This function converts a value, T, which is available as the element of the original stream (Stream<T>) to a value, R, and the return value of the map method is Stream<R>. The map method converts Stream<T> to Stream<R> using the given Function<T,R>, calling it for each ...

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