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).
First of all, several of the other answers are misleading and/or incorrect. Note that an array is an object. So you can use them as elements in a list, no matter whether the arrays themselves contain primitive types or object references.
Next, declaring a variable as List<int[]> list is preferred over declaring it as ArrayList<int[]>. This allows you to easily change the List to a LinkedList or some other implementation without breaking the rest of your code because it is guaranteed to use only methods available in the List interface. For more information, you should research "programming to the interface."
Now to answer your real question, which was only added as a comment. Let's look at a few lines of your code:
Integer[] point = new Integer[3];
This line creates an array of Integers, obviously.
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++) {
point[j] = (int)(Math.random() * 10);
}
//Doesn't this line add filled Integer[] point to the
//end of ArrayList list?
list.add(point);
//...
}
Here you assign values to the elements of the array and then add a reference to the array to your List. Each time the loop iterates, you assign new values to the same array and add another reference to the same array to the List. This means that the List has 10 references to the same array which has been repeatedly written over.
Iterator it = list.iterator();
while (it.hasNext()) {
point = (Integer[])it.next();
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
System.out.print(point[i] + ",");
}
System.out.println();
}
Now this loop prints out the same array 10 times. The values in the array are the last ones set at the end of the previous loop.
To fix the problem, you simply need to be sure to create 10 different arrays.
One last issue: If you declare it as Iterator<Integer[]> it (or Iterator<int[]> it), you do not need to cast the return value of it.next(). In fact this is preferred because it is type-safe.
Finally, I want to ask what the ints in each array represent? You might want to revisit your program design and create a class that holds these three ints, either as an array or as three member variables.
I would highly recommend to enclose the integer array of 3 numbers into a meaningful class, that would hold, display and control an array of 3 integers.
Then in your main, you can have an growing ArrayList of objects of that class.
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?