First of all, for initializing a container you cannot use a primitive type (i.e. int; you can use int[] but as you want just an array of integers, I see no use in that). Instead, you should use Integer, as follows:
ArrayList<Integer> arl = new ArrayList<Integer>();
For adding elements, just use the add function:
arl.add(1);
arl.add(22);
arl.add(-2);
Last, but not least, for printing the ArrayList you may use the build-in functionality of toString():
System.out.println("Arraylist contains: " + arl.toString());
If you want to access the i element, where i is an index from 0 to the length of the array-1, you can do a :
int i = 0; // Index 0 is of the first element
System.out.println("The first element is: " + arl.get(i));
I suggest reading first on Java Containers, before starting to work with them.
Answer from Raul Rene on Stack OverflowFirst of all, for initializing a container you cannot use a primitive type (i.e. int; you can use int[] but as you want just an array of integers, I see no use in that). Instead, you should use Integer, as follows:
ArrayList<Integer> arl = new ArrayList<Integer>();
For adding elements, just use the add function:
arl.add(1);
arl.add(22);
arl.add(-2);
Last, but not least, for printing the ArrayList you may use the build-in functionality of toString():
System.out.println("Arraylist contains: " + arl.toString());
If you want to access the i element, where i is an index from 0 to the length of the array-1, you can do a :
int i = 0; // Index 0 is of the first element
System.out.println("The first element is: " + arl.get(i));
I suggest reading first on Java Containers, before starting to work with them.
More simple than that.
List<Integer> arrayIntegers = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(1,2,3));
arrayIntegers.get(1);
In the first line you create the object and in the constructor you pass an array parameter to List.
In the second line you have all the methods of the List class: .get (...)
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Streams
- In Java 8+ you can make a stream of your
intarray. Call eitherArrays.streamorIntStream.of. - Call
IntStream#boxedto use boxing conversion fromintprimitive toIntegerobjects. - Collect into a list using
Stream.collect( Collectors.toList() ). Or more simply in Java 16+, callStream#toList().
Example:
int[] ints = {1,2,3};
List<Integer> list = Arrays.stream(ints).boxed().collect(Collectors.toList());
In Java 16 and later:
List<Integer> list = Arrays.stream(ints).boxed().toList();
There is no shortcut for converting from int[] to List<Integer> as Arrays.asList does not deal with boxing and will just create a List<int[]> which is not what you want. You have to make a utility method.
int[] ints = {1, 2, 3};
List<Integer> intList = new ArrayList<Integer>(ints.length);
for (int i : ints)
{
intList.add(i);
}
With streams added in Java 8 we can write code like:
int[] example1 = list.stream().mapToInt(i->i).toArray();
// OR
int[] example2 = list.stream().mapToInt(Integer::intValue).toArray();
Thought process:
The simple
Stream#toArrayreturns anObject[]array, so it is not what we want. Also,Stream#toArray(IntFunction<A[]> generator)which returnsA[]doesn't do what we want, because the generic typeAcan't represent the primitive typeintSo it would be nice to have some kind of stream which would be designed to handle primitive type
intinstead of the reference type likeInteger, because itstoArraymethod will most likely also return anint[]array (returning something else likeObject[]or even boxedInteger[]would be unnatural forint). And fortunately Java 8 has such a stream which isIntStreamSo now the only thing we need to figure out is how to convert our
Stream<Integer>(which will be returned fromlist.stream()) to that shinyIntStream.Quick searching in documentation of
Streamwhile looking for methods which returnIntStreampoints us to our solution which ismapToInt(ToIntFunction<? super T> mapper)method. All we need to do is provide a mapping fromIntegertoint.Since
ToIntFunctionis functional interface we can also provide its instance via lambda or method reference.Anyway to convert Integer to int we can use
Integer#intValueso insidemapToIntwe can write:mapToInt( (Integer i) -> i.intValue() )(or some may prefer:
mapToInt(Integer::intValue).)But similar code can be generated using unboxing, since the compiler knows that the result of this lambda must be of type
int(the lambda used inmapToIntis an implementation of theToIntFunctioninterface which expects as body a method of type:int applyAsInt(T value)which is expected to return anint).So we can simply write:
mapToInt((Integer i)->i)Also, since the
Integertype in(Integer i)can be inferred by the compiler becauseList<Integer>#stream()returns aStream<Integer>, we can also skip it which leaves us withmapToInt(i -> i)
Unfortunately, I don't believe there really is a better way of doing this due to the nature of Java's handling of primitive types, boxing, arrays and generics. In particular:
List<T>.toArraywon't work because there's no conversion fromIntegertoint- You can't use
intas a type argument for generics, so it would have to be anint-specific method (or one which used reflection to do nasty trickery).
I believe there are libraries which have autogenerated versions of this kind of method for all the primitive types (i.e. there's a template which is copied for each type). It's ugly, but that's the way it is I'm afraid :(
Even though the Arrays class came out before generics arrived in Java, it would still have to include all the horrible overloads if it were introduced today (assuming you want to use primitive arrays).
It seems a lot easier from the very little time I spent on Python before making the jump to Java. I'm taking a college night class on Java, and lists are one thing that are confusing me. How do they work in Java?
I have noticed the syntax to convert an ArrayList<int[]> to a 2-d array (int[][]) is
arrName.toArray(new int[0][0]);
I am most curious about the parameters that we are sending into the toArray() method, and am curious how 'new int[0][0]' indicates this .