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Optional.or(Supplier<? extends Optional<T>> supplier)

See original GitHub issue

Would be useful for usecases like:

someOptional = firstSuplier().or(secondSupplier).or(thirdSupplier)

Right now it should be written as

if (!someOptional.isPresent()) {
  someOptional = secondSupplier();
}

if (!someOptional.isPresent()) {
  someOptional = thirdSupplier();
}

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Created 9 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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kilotarascommented, Mar 4, 2018

Added in Java 9. Could still be useful to people on Java 8

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cpovirkcommented, Jun 13, 2018

Kevin recently said:

I’m sorry, but the legacy Optional class is indeed frozen.

I’ll close this and any other Optional feature requests I see floating around.

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