Map vs Flatmap?

Asep Saputra
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4 min readMar 29, 2023

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When to use map() and flatMap()? and what’s the difference?

map vs flatMap in Java

The Java Streams API is a powerful tool for processing collections of data in a functional programming style. One of the most useful operations in this API is the map() function, which applies a given function to each element of a stream and returns a new stream containing the results. Another operation, flatMap(), has similar functionality, but with some important…

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