How to return collections' data without returning a collection itself?

Question

I have a class (A.java) that contains two private fields of type ArrayList and HashMap.
I also have another class (B.java) that should have access to their data. I could make two getters, but I don't want to return my collections as is. Class B.java should only have access to data, not to add(), isEmpty(), containsKey() etc.
Can I return my collections in such way, so I could somehow use it with foreach in class B somehow but without giving the possibility to modify them?

Answer 1

Don't return a collection, return a Stream. That way it is easy for the user to know that they are getting a stream of objects, not a collection. And it's easy to change the implementation of the collection without changing the way it's used. It's trivial for the user to filter, map, reduce collect etc.

So:

class A {
    private List<C> cs = new ArrayList<>();

    public Stream<C> getCs() {
        return cs.stream();
    }
}

class B {
    public void processCs(A a) {
        a.getCs().filter(C::hasFooness).forEach(...);
    }
}