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The Java Workshop

You're reading from   The Java Workshop Learn object-oriented programming and kickstart your career in software development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838986698
Length 606 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Eric Foster-Johnson Eric Foster-Johnson
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Andreas Göransson Andreas Göransson
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David Cuartielles David Cuartielles
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Learning the Basics FREE CHAPTER 3. Object-Oriented Programming 4. Collections, Lists and Java's Built-In APIs 5. Exceptions 6. Libraries, Packages, and Modules 7. Databases and JDBC 8. Sockets, Files, and Streams 9. Working with HTTP 10. Encryption 11. Processes 12. Regular Expressions 13. Functional Programming with Lambda Expressions 14. Recursion 15. Processing Data with Streams 16. Predicates and Other Functional Interfaces 17. Reactive Programming with Java Flow 18. Unit Testing Appendix

Activity 1: Toggling the Sensor States

Rewrite the program once more, adding a scanner to your program to toggle sensor states from the command line. Each sensor should be capable of at least toggling the battery health and triggered status. When a sensor has updated, you should check the system for changes and generate a proper response on the command line if a warning or alarm has been triggered.

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The solution for this activity can be found via this link.

Consumer Interface

In functional programming, we're often told to avoid side effects in our code. The consumer functional interface, however, is an exception to this rule. Its only purpose is to produce a side effect based on the state of the argument. The consumer has quite a simple API, the core function of which is called accept() and doesn't return anything:

void accept(T);

This can also be used for chaining multiple consumers by using the andThen() function, which returns the newly chained consumer...

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