It's possible if you define such a functional interface with multiple type parameters. There is no such built in type. (There are a few limited types with multiple parameters.)

@FunctionalInterface
interface Function6<One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six> {
    public Six apply(One one, Two two, Three three, Four four, Five five);
}

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Function6<String, Integer, Double, Void, List<Float>, Character> func = (a, b, c, d, e) -> 'z';
}

I've called it Function6 here. The name is at your discretion, just try not to clash with existing names in the Java libraries.


There's also no way to define a variable number of type parameters, if that's what you were asking about.


Some languages, like Scala, define a number of built in such types, with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc. type parameters.

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Function<Integer,Integer,Integer> f3 = (x,y) -> {return x + y};

is actually a BiFunction<Integer,Integer,Integer>

and

Function<Double> f4 = () -> {return Math.random()};

is a Supplier<Double>

If you need more create your own, like TriFunction<Integer,Integer,Integer,Integer> for example

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I am almost sure that you can define own functional interface (i.e., create a new file commonly) to develop f3 and f4, but Is there some way to easily define them?

In addition to the Eugene answer, I would add that :

Function<Integer,Integer,Integer> f3 = (x,y) -> {return x + y};

may be considered as BiFunction<Integer,Integer,Integer> or simply BinaryOperator<Integer>. Note that you perform arithmetical computations with the Integers in the lambda body. These produce unboxing and boxing operations : Integer->int->Integer. So in this use case you are encouraged to use a specialized functional interface that prevents that : IntBinaryOperator which the functional signature is (int, int)-> int that is itself a specialization of BinaryOperator<T> a subclass of BiFunction<T,T,T>

In the same logic of sparing autoboxing operations : Function<Integer,Integer> f2 should be IntFunction f2 and Supplier<Double> f4 should be DoubleSupplier f4.

Note also that specifying a specific number of argument makes sense as it is straight usable in a lambda body but specifying something like a var-args is possible but generally harder to exploit.

For example you could declare this interface :

@FunctionalInterface
public interface VargsFunction<T,R> {
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    R apply(T...  t);
}

But harder to use without delegating to a method that accepts a var-args :

VargsFunction<Integer, Integer> f = varg-> call(varg);

Integer call(Integer... varg) {
    ...
}
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