Filter Java Stream to 1 and only 1 element

I am trying to use Java 8 Streams to find elements in a LinkedList. I want to guarantee, however, that there is one and only one match to the filter criteria.

Take this code:

public static void main(String[] args) {

    LinkedList<User> users = new LinkedList<>();
    users.add(new User(1, "User1"));
    users.add(new User(2, "User2"));
    users.add(new User(3, "User3"));

    User match = users.stream().filter((user) -> user.getId() == 1).findAny().get();
    System.out.println(match.toString());
}

static class User {

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return id + " - " + username;
    }

    int id;
    String username;

    public User() {
    }

    public User(int id, String username) {
        this.id = id;
        this.username = username;
    }

    public void setUsername(String username) {
        this.username = username;
    }

    public void setId(int id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getUsername() {
        return username;
    }

    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }
}

This code finds a User based on their ID. But there are no guarantees how many Users matched the filter.

Changing the filter line to:

User match = users.stream().filter((user) -> user.getId() < 0).findAny().get();

Will throw a NoSuchElementException (good!)

I would like it to throw an error if there are multiple matches, though. Is there a way to do this?

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