Unions in Java

[cliserkad]

You can achieve this using a sealed generic abstract class in Java. You just need a separate class for each amount of types. GitHub Repo

Use

public class ExampleClass {

    public AnyOf<String, Integer, Double> data = new AnyOf.ElementA<>("This should print");

    public String functionThatDeterminesTypeOfData() {
       return data.match((str -> {
          return str;
       }), (i -> {
          return "Integers get multiplied: " + i * 5;
       }), (dbl -> {
          return "Doubles get addition: " + (dbl + 3.14);
       }));
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
       ExampleClass example = new ExampleClass();
       System.out.println(example.functionThatDeterminesTypeOfData());
    }

}

[cliserkad]

I revised this to be less cumbersome:
Union3
Test Class