等待Java 8:

List<Person> olderThan30 = 
  //Create a Stream from the personList
  personList.stream().
  //filter the element to select only those with age >= 30
  filter(p -> p.age >= 30).
  //put those filtered elements into a new List.
  collect(Collectors.toList());

设置:

public interface Predicate<T> {
  public boolean filter(T t);
}

void filterCollection(Collection<T> col, Predicate<T> predicate) {
  for (Iterator i = col.iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
    T obj = i.next();
    if (predicate.filter(obj)) {
      i.remove();
    }
  }
}

的用法:

List<MyObject> myList = ...;
filterCollection(myList, new Predicate<MyObject>() {
  public boolean filter(MyObject obj) {
    return obj.shouldFilter();
  }
});

JFilter http://code.google.com/p/jfilter/最适合您的需求。

JFilter是一个简单、高性能的开源库，用于查询Java bean集合。

关键特性

Support of collection (java.util.Collection, java.util.Map and Array) properties. Support of collection inside collection of any depth. Support of inner queries. Support of parameterized queries. Can filter 1 million records in few 100 ms. Filter ( query) is given in simple json format, it is like Mangodb queries. Following are some examples. { "id":{"$le":"10"} where object id property is less than equals to 10. { "id": {"$in":["0", "100"]}} where object id property is 0 or 100. {"lineItems":{"lineAmount":"1"}} where lineItems collection property of parameterized type has lineAmount equals to 1. { "$and":[{"id": "0"}, {"billingAddress":{"city":"DEL"}}]} where id property is 0 and billingAddress.city property is DEL. {"lineItems":{"taxes":{ "key":{"code":"GST"}, "value":{"$gt": "1.01"}}}} where lineItems collection property of parameterized type which has taxes map type property of parameteriszed type has code equals to GST value greater than 1.01. {'$or':[{'code':'10'},{'skus': {'$and':[{'price':{'$in':['20', '40']}}, {'code':'RedApple'}]}}]} Select all products where product code is 10 or sku price in 20 and 40 and sku code is "RedApple".

您可以使用ForEach DSL编写

import static ch.akuhn.util.query.Query.select;
import static ch.akuhn.util.query.Query.$result;
import ch.akuhn.util.query.Select;

Collection<String> collection = ...

for (Select<String> each : select(collection)) {
    each.yield = each.value.length() > 3;
}

Collection<String> result = $result();

给定一个集合[The, quick, brown, fox, jumping, over, The, lazy, dog]，结果是[quick, brown, jumping, over, lazy]，即所有字符串都长于三个字符。

ForEach DSL支持的所有迭代样式都是

AllSatisfy AnySatisfy 收集 Counnt CutPieces 检测 GroupedBy IndexOf InjectInto 拒绝 选择

更多详情请参考https://www.iam.unibe.ch/scg/svn_repos/Sources/ForEach

“最好”这个要求太宽泛了。它是“最短的”吗?“最快”?“可读”? 过滤器的地方或到另一个集合?

最简单(但不是最易读)的方法是迭代它，并使用Iterator.remove()方法:

Iterator<Foo> it = col.iterator();
while( it.hasNext() ) {
  Foo foo = it.next();
  if( !condition(foo) ) it.remove();
}

现在，为了使其更具可读性，可以将其包装到实用程序方法中。然后发明一个IPredicate接口，创建该接口的匿名实现，并执行如下操作:

CollectionUtils.filterInPlace(col,
  new IPredicate<Foo>(){
    public boolean keepIt(Foo foo) {
      return foo.isBar();
    }
  });

where filterInPlace()迭代集合并调用Predicate.keepIt()来了解实例是否保留在集合中。

我真的没有看到为这项任务引入第三方库的正当理由。

Java 8(2014)在一行代码中使用流和lambdas解决了这个问题:

List<Person> beerDrinkers = persons.stream()
    .filter(p -> p.getAge() > 16).collect(Collectors.toList());

这是一个教程。

使用Collection#removeIf在适当的地方修改集合。(注意:在这种情况下，谓词将删除满足谓词的对象):

persons.removeIf(p -> p.getAge() <= 16);

Lambdaj允许在不编写循环或内部类的情况下过滤集合:

List<Person> beerDrinkers = select(persons, having(on(Person.class).getAge(),
    greaterThan(16)));

你能想象出更有可读性的东西吗?

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