What is the OptionalDouble.of method in Java?

In Java, the OptionalDouble object is a container object that may or may not contain a double value.

The OptionalDouble class is present in the java.util package.

The of method

The of method is used to get an instance of the OptionalDouble class with the specified double value.

Syntax

public static OptionalDouble of (double value)

Parameters

This method takes as a parameter the double value that is to be present in the OptionalDouble object.

Return value

This method returns an OptionalDouble object with the specified double value.

Code

The code below shows how to use the of method.

import java.util.OptionalDouble;
class OptionalDoubleOfExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
OptionalDouble optional1 = OptionalDouble.of(1.5);
System.out.println("Optional 1: " + optional1);
OptionalDouble optional2 = OptionalDouble.of(10.8967);
System.out.println("Optional 2: " + optional2);
}
}

Explanation

In the code above:

  • In line 1, we imported the OptionalDouble class.
import java.util.OptionalDouble;
  • In line 5, we used the of method to get an OptionalDouble object with the double value 1.5.
OptionalDouble optional1 = OptionalDouble.of(1.5);
optional1; // OptionalDouble[1.5]
  • In line 8, we used the of method to get an OptionalDouble object with the value 10.8967.
OptionalDouble optional2 = OptionalDouble.of(10.8967);
optional2;// OptionalDouble[10.8967]
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