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Normal Consumer can take only one input argument and perform required operation and won’t return any result.

But sometimes our programming requirement to accept 2 input values and perform required operation and not required to return any result. Then we should go for BiConsumer.

BiConsumer is exactly same as Consumer except that it will take 2 input arguments.

@FunctionalInterface
public interface BiConsumer<T,U> {
    void accept(T t, U u);
    default BiConsumer<T,U> andThen(BiConsumer<? super T,? super U> after) { }
}

Program to accept 2 String values and print result of concatenation by using BiConsumer :

package com.codeFactory.biconsumer;

import java.util.function.BiConsumer;

public class Test {
	public static void main(String... args) {
		BiConsumer<String, String> c = (s1, s2) -> System.out.println(s1 + s2);
		c.accept("Code", "Factory");
	}
}

Output :

CodeFactory

Demo Program to increment employee Salary by using BiConsumer :

package com.codeFactory.biconsumer;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.function.BiConsumer;

class Employee {
	String name;
	double salary;
	
	Employee(String name, double salary) {
		this.name = name;
		this.salary = salary;
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return "Employee [name=" + name + ", salary=" + salary + "]";
	}

}

public class Test {
	public static void main(String... args) {
		ArrayList<Employee> i = new ArrayList<>();
		populate(i);
		
		System.out.println("Before Increment :");
		print(i);
		
		BiConsumer<Employee, Double> c = (e, d) -> e.salary += d;
		for(Employee e : i) {
			c.accept(e, 750.0);
		}
		
		System.out.println("After Increment :");
		print(i);
	}
	
	private static void populate(ArrayList<Employee> i) {
		i.add(new Employee("Narendra", 1000));
		i.add(new Employee("Amit", 2000));
		i.add(new Employee("Vijay", 3000));
		i.add(new Employee("Yogi", 4000));
	}
	
	private static void print(ArrayList<Employee> i) {
		for(Employee e : i) {
			System.out.println(e);
		}
	}
}

Output :

Before Increment :
Employee [name=Narendra, salary=1000.0]
Employee [name=Amit, salary=2000.0]
Employee [name=Vijay, salary=3000.0]
Employee [name=Yogi, salary=4000.0]
After Increment :
Employee [name=Narendra, salary=1750.0]
Employee [name=Amit, salary=2750.0]
Employee [name=Vijay, salary=3750.0]
Employee [name=Yogi, salary=4750.0]

. . . . .

Comparison Table between One argument and Two argument Functional Interfaces :

One Argument Functional Interface	Two Argument Functional Interface
interface Predicate<T>{ public boolean test(T t); default Predicate and(Predicate P) { } default Predicate or(Predicate P) { } default Predicate negate() { } static Predicate isEqual(Object o) { } }	interface BiPredicate<T, U>{ public boolean test(T t, U u); default BiPredicate and(BiPredicate P) { } default BiPredicate or(BiPredicate P) { } default BiPredicate negate() { } }
interface Function<T, R>{ public R apply(T t); default Function andThen(Function F) { } default Function compose(Function F) { } static Function identify() { } }	interface BiFunction<T, U, R>{ public R apply(T t, U u); default BiFunction andThen(Function F) { } }
interface Consumer<T>{ public void accept(T t); default Consumer andThen(Consumer C) { } }	interface BiConsumer<T, U>{ public void accept(T t, U u); default BiConsumer andThen(BiConsumer C) { } }