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Why I can't print objects with .forEach()?


I am trying to use streams to group my objects by nationality and print them out.
But it says : "Cannot resolve method 'println"

class Person {

    private String name;
    private int age;
    private String nationality;

public static  void groupByNationality(List<Person> people) {
     people
        .stream()
        .collect(Collectors.groupingBy(Person::getNationality))
        .forEach(System.out::println);
    }

Solution

  • .collect(Collectors.groupingBy(Person::getNationality)) is a terminal operation that returns a Map<String,List<Person>>.

    Map's forEach requires a BiConsumer<? super K, ? super V> action argument, which requires a method with two arguments. This doesn't conform with the signature of System.out::println (all the println methods have a single argument).

    You could change

    .forEach(System.out::println);
    

    to

    .forEach((key,value)->System.out.println (key + ":" + value));