Core Java

Java 8 Stream and Lambda Expressions – Parsing File Example

Recently I wanted to extract certain data from an output log. Here’s part of the log file:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2015-01-06 11:33:03 b.s.d.task [INFO] Emitting: eVentToRequestsBolt __ack_ack [-6722594615019711369 -1335723027906100557]
2015-01-06 11:33:03 c.s.p.d.PackagesProvider [INFO] ===---> Loaded package com.foo.bar
2015-01-06 11:33:04 b.s.d.executor [INFO] Processing received message source: eventToManageBolt:2, stream: __ack_ack, id: {}, [-6722594615019711369 -1335723027906100557]
2015-01-06 11:33:04 c.s.p.d.PackagesProvider [INFO] ===---> Loaded package co.il.boo
2015-01-06 11:33:04 c.s.p.d.PackagesProvider [INFO] ===---> Loaded package dot.org.biz

I decided to do it using the Java8 Stream and Lambda Expression features.

Read the file

First, I needed to read the log file and put the lines in a Stream:

Stream<String> lines = Files.lines(Paths.get(args[1]));

Filter relevant lines

I needed to get the packages names and write them into another file. Not all lines contained the data I need, hence filter only relevant ones.

lines.filter(line -> line.contains("===---> Loaded package"))

Parsing the relevant lines

Then, I needed to parse the relevant lines. I did it by first splitting each line to an array of Strings and then taking the last element in that array. In other words, I did a double mapping. First a line to an array and then an array to a String.

.map(line -> line.split(" "))
.map(arr -> arr[arr.length - 1])

Writing to output file

The last part was taking each string and write it to a file. That was the terminal operation.

.forEach(package -> writeToFile(fw, package));

writeToFile is a method I created. The reason is that Java File System throws IOException. You can’t use checked exceptions in lambda expressions.

Here’s a full example (note, I don’t check input)

import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

public class App {
	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
		Stream<String> lines = null;
		if (args.length == 2) {
			lines = Files.lines(Paths.get(args[1]));
		} else {
			String s1 = "2015-01-06 11:33:03 b.s.d.task [INFO] Emitting: adEventToRequestsBolt __ack_ack [-6722594615019711369 -1335723027906100557]";
			String s2 = "2015-01-06 11:33:03 b.s.d.executor [INFO] Processing received message source: eventToManageBolt:2, stream: __ack_ack, id: {}, [-6722594615019711369 -1335723027906100557]";
			String s3 = "2015-01-06 11:33:04 c.s.p.d.PackagesProvider [INFO] ===---> Loaded package com.foo.bar";
			String s4 = "2015-01-06 11:33:04 c.s.p.d.PackagesProvider [INFO] ===---> Loaded package co.il.boo";
			String s5 = "2015-01-06 11:33:04 c.s.p.d.PackagesProvider [INFO] ===---> Loaded package dot.org.biz";
			List<String> rows = Arrays.asList(s1, s2, s3, s4, s5);
			lines = rows.stream();
		}
		
		new App().parse(lines, args[0]);

	}
	
	private void parse(Stream<String> lines, String output) throws IOException {
		final FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(output);
		
		//@formatter:off
		lines.filter(line -> line.contains("===---> Loaded package"))
		.map(line -> line.split(" "))
		.map(arr -> arr[arr.length - 1])
		.forEach(package -> writeToFile(fw, package));
		//@formatter:on
		fw.close();
		lines.close();
	}

	private void writeToFile(FileWriter fw, String package) {
		try {
			fw.write(String.format("%s%n", package));
		} catch (IOException e) {
			throw new RuntimeException(e);
		}
	}

}

Eyal Golan

Eyal is a professional software engineer and an architect. He is a developer and leader of highly sophisticated systems in different areas, such as networking, security, commerce and more.
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