How to exit Java stream processing after a required number of results?

Question

I have following code which uses Stream API to find names of first 3 elements in a collection which have calories more than 300:

List<Dish> dishes = ....
List<String> unhealthyDishes = dishes.stream()
                                     .filter(dish -> dish.getCalories() > 300)
                                     .map(dish -> dish.getName())
                                     .limit(3)
                                     .collect(Collectors.toList());

In traditional iterator based imperative approach, I can keep count of the results and hence exit the iteration loop once I have got required number of elements. But above code seems to go through the entire length of the collection. How can I stop it doing so and stop once I have got 3 elements I need?

java 8 java stream

tdranv · Accepted Answer

How do you know it checks the other elements as well? I just set up this small test:
String[] words = {"a", "a", "a", "aa"};
        
List<Integer> shortWords = Arrays.stream(words)
     .filter(word -> {
             System.out.println("checking " + word);
             return word.length() == 1;
             })
     .map(String::length)
     .limit(3)
     .collect(Collectors.toList());
        
System.out.println(shortWords);

And the output was:
checking a
checking a
checking a
[1, 1, 1]

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