Java List.contains(Object with field value equal to x)

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If you are using Java 8, perhaps you could try something like this:

public boolean containsName(final List<MyObject> list, final String name){
    return list.stream().filter(o -> o.getName().equals(name)).findFirst().isPresent();
}

Or alternatively, you could try something like this:

public boolean containsName(final List<MyObject> list, final String name){
    return list.stream().map(MyObject::getName).filter(name::equals).findFirst().isPresent();
}

This method will return true if the List<MyObject> contains a MyObject with the name name. If you want to perform an operation on each of the MyObjects that getName().equals(name), then you could try something like this:

public void perform(final List<MyObject> list, final String name){
    list.stream().filter(o -> o.getName().equals(name)).forEach(
            o -> {
                //...
            }
    );
}

Where o represents a MyObject instance.

Alternatively, as the comments suggest (Thanks MK10), you could use the Stream#anyMatch method:

public boolean containsName(final List<MyObject> list, final String name){
    return list.stream().anyMatch(o -> o.getName().equals(name));
}

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