An Optional chain in Java

Java interview exercise on Generics & Optional, difficulty 2 of 3. Solve it in the editor beside a worked example, or cold in Interview mode with the example hidden; the tests run the moment you do.

Given record User(String name, String email) where email may be null, write findEmail(users, id) that returns an Optional<String> holding the user's email in lower case and trimmed, empty when the id is unknown, the email is null, or the email is blank. One chain: Optional.ofNullable, map, filter.

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