How to find an object in an ArrayList by property

In Java8 you can use streams:

public static Carnet findByCodeIsIn(Collection<Carnet> listCarnet, String codeIsIn) {
    return listCarnet.stream().filter(carnet -> codeIsIn.equals(carnet.getCodeIsin())).findFirst().orElse(null);
}

Additionally, in case you have many different objects (not only Carnet) or you want to find it by different properties (not only by cideIsin), you could build an utility class, to ecapsulate this logic in it:

public final class FindUtils {
    public static <T> T findByProperty(Collection<T> col, Predicate<T> filter) {
        return col.stream().filter(filter).findFirst().orElse(null);
    }
}

public final class CarnetUtils {
    public static Carnet findByCodeTitre(Collection<Carnet> listCarnet, String codeTitre) {
        return FindUtils.findByProperty(listCarnet, carnet -> codeTitre.equals(carnet.getCodeTitre()));
    }

    public static Carnet findByNomTitre(Collection<Carnet> listCarnet, String nomTitre) {
        return FindUtils.findByProperty(listCarnet, carnet -> nomTitre.equals(carnet.getNomTitre()));
    }

    public static Carnet findByCodeIsIn(Collection<Carnet> listCarnet, String codeIsin) {
        return FindUtils.findByProperty(listCarnet, carnet -> codeIsin.equals(carnet.getCodeIsin()));
    }
}

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