Java8 style for comparing arrays? (Streams and Math3) - java-8

Question

I'm just beginning to learn Java8 streams and Apache commons Math3 at the same time, and looking for missed opportunities to simplify my solution for comparing instances for equality. Consider this Math3 RealVector:
RealVector testArrayRealVector =
new ArrayRealVector(new double [] {1d, 2d, 3d});
and consider this member variable containing boxed doubles, plus this copy of it as an array list collection:
private final Double [] m_ADoubleArray = {13d, 14d, 15d};
private final Collection<Double> m_CollectionArrayList =
new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(m_ADoubleArray));
Here is my best shot at comparing these in a functional style in a JUnit class (full gist here), using protonpack from codepoetix because I couldn't find zip in the Streams library. This looks really baroque to my eyes and I wonder whether I've missed ways to make this shorter, faster, simpler, better because I'm just beginning to learn this stuff and don't know much.
// Make a stream out of the RealVector:
DoubleStream testArrayRealVectorStream =
Arrays.stream(testArrayRealVector.toArray());
// Check the type of that Stream
assertTrue("java.util.stream.DoublePipeline$Head" ==
testArrayRealVectorStream.getClass().getTypeName());
// Use up the stream:
assertEquals(3, testArrayRealVectorStream.count());
// Old one is used up; make another:
testArrayRealVectorStream = Arrays.stream(testArrayRealVector.toArray());
// Make a new stream from the member-var arrayList;
// do arithmetic on the copy, leaving the original unmodified:
Stream<Double> collectionStream = getFreshMemberVarStream();
// Use up the stream:
assertEquals(3, collectionStream.count());
// Stream is now used up; make new one:
collectionStream = getFreshMemberVarStream();
// Doesn't seem to be any way to use zip on the real array vector
// without boxing it.
Stream<Double> arrayRealVectorStreamBoxed =
testArrayRealVectorStream.boxed();
assertTrue(zip(
collectionStream,
arrayRealVectorStreamBoxed,
(l, r) -> Math.abs(l - r) < DELTA)
.reduce(true, (a, b) -> a && b));
where
private Stream<Double> getFreshMemberVarStream() {
return m_CollectionArrayList
.stream()
.map(x -> x - 12.0);
}
Again, here is a gist of my entire JUnit test class.

Answer 1

It seems you are trying to bail in Streams at all cost.
If I understand you correctly, you have
double[] array1=testArrayRealVector.toArray();
Double[] m_ADoubleArray = {13d, 14d, 15d};
as starting point. Then, the first thing you can do is to verify the lengths of these arrays:
assertTrue(array1.length==m_ADoubleArray.length);
assertEquals(3, array1.length);
There is no point in wrapping the arrays into a stream and calling count() and, of course, even less in wrapping an array into a collection to call stream().count() on it. Note that if your starting point is a Collection, calling size() will do as well.
Given that you already verified the length, you can simply do
IntStream.range(0, 3).forEach(ix->assertEquals(m_ADoubleArray[ix]-12, array1[ix], DELTA));
to compare the elements of the arrays.
or when you want to apply arithmetic as a function:
// keep the size check as above as the length won’t change
IntToDoubleFunction f=ix -> m_ADoubleArray[ix]-12;
IntStream.range(0, 3).forEach(ix -> assertEquals(f.applyAsDouble(ix), array1[ix], DELTA));
Note that you can also just create a new array using
double[] array2=Arrays.stream(m_ADoubleArray).mapToDouble(d -> d-12).toArray();
and compare the arrays similar to above:
IntStream.range(0, 3).forEach(ix -> assertEquals(array1[ix], array2[ix], DELTA));
or just using
assertArrayEquals(array1, array2, DELTA);
as now both arrays have the same type.
Don’t think about that temporary three element array holding the intermediate result. All other attempts consume far more memory…