How to do Arrays.asList on only part of an Object[] array?

Hi,

As you may know, the Arrays.asList method will return an ArrayList
object from an Object[] array. What is the easiest way to achieve
this when you only want a specific range of that Object[] array, say,
its first element up until it's length - 1 element?

I'm using Java 1.5. Thanks, - Dave

laredotornado

laredotornado wrote:
> As you may know, the Arrays.asList method will return an ArrayList
> object from an Object[] array. What is the easiest way to achieve
> this when you only want a specific range of that Object[] array, say,
> its first element up until it's length - 1 element?

Combining with Arrays.copyOf, but I would write a custom method
for it.

Arne

Arne Vajhøj

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, laredotornado wrote:

> As you may know, the Arrays.asList method will return an ArrayList
> object from an Object[] array. What is the easiest way to achieve this
> when you only want a specific range of that Object[] array, say, its
> first element up until it's length - 1 element?

Arrays.asList(anArray).subList(startIndex, endIndex);

Both the array list and the sub-list are lightweight wrappers, so there's
no copying, just two method calls and some arithmetic on each access.

tom

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Tom Anderson

laredotornado wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As you may know, the Arrays.asList method will return an ArrayList
> object from an Object[] array. What is the easiest way to achieve
> this when you only want a specific range of that Object[] array, say,
> its first element up until it's length - 1 element?
>
> I'm using Java 1.5. Thanks, - Dave


"copyOfRange", I guess.


List<X> list = Arrays.asList( Arrays.copyOfRange( x, 0, x.length-1 ));

Not syntax checked. Note this works a bit differently than asList
because you use a copy, and the orginal does "write through" like a
plain asList does.

I guess you could also do:

List<X> list = Arrays.asList( x );
list.remove( list.size()-1 );

markspace

laredotornado wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As you may know, the Arrays.asList method will return an ArrayList
> object from an Object[] array. What is the easiest way to achieve
> this when you only want a specific range of that Object[] array, say,
> its first element up until it's length - 1 element?

Easiest is probably something like

List<Foo> all = Arrays.asList(arrayOfFoo);
List<Foo> some = all.sublist(begin, limit);

(which you could condense a bit if desired). Alternatively,
you could use Arrays.copyOfRange() to make a new copy of part
of the array, and apply Arrays.asList() to that (but changes
to the copy, of course, would not affect the original).

--
Eric Sosman
lid

Eric Sosman

Tom Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, laredotornado wrote:
>
>> As you may know, the Arrays.asList method will return an ArrayList
>> object from an Object[] array. What is the easiest way to achieve
>> this when you only want a specific range of that Object[] array,
>> say, its first element up until it's length - 1 element?
>
> Arrays.asList(anArray).subList(startIndex, endIndex);
>
> Both the array list and the sub-list are lightweight wrappers, so
> there's no copying, just two method calls and some arithmetic on
> each
> access.

Tom took my answer.

Mike Schilling

laredotornado wrote:
> As you may know, the Arrays.asList method will return an ArrayList
> object from an Object[] array. What is the easiest way to achieve
> this when you only want a specific range of that Object[] array, say,
> its first element up until it's length - 1 element?
>
> I'm using Java 1.5.

You have a plethora of answers already, but I'm wondering why you're using an
obsolete version of Java.

The RFC for newsgroups specifies that a sig at the end of a message to conform
to a line with "double-dash space" on its own line, with the sig following on
subsequent lines.

There is no requirement to follow that convention, and in fact Google Groups
(being the sucky trash news reader that it is) eats the space and spoils the
pattern. However, when you do follow the pattern, good news readers know how
to deal with it.

So why are you using an obsolete version of Java?

--
Lew

Lew

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:10:50 -0800 (PST), laredotornado
<> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>
>As you may know, the Arrays.asList method will return an ArrayList
>object from an Object[] array.


You can feed asList either a template array of the correct type or a
full template array of just the right size. It is a bit ugly in the
syntax, but the you end up with an array of the correct type. By
default, it will create a Object[] so there is not much point in
providing it an Object[] template.

--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com

An example (complete and annotated) is worth 1000 lines of BNF.

Roedy Green

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:10:50 -0800 (PST), laredotornado
<> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>As you may know, the Arrays.asList method will return an ArrayList
>object from an Object[] array. What is the easiest way to achieve
>this when you only want a specific range of that Object[] array, say,
>its first element up until it's length - 1 element?

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/arraylist.html#CONVERTING
--
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http://mindprod.com

An example (complete and annotated) is worth 1000 lines of BNF.

Roedy Green

On 5 nov, 00:25, Tom Anderson <t...@urchin.earth.li> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, laredotornado wrote:
> > As you may know, the Arrays.asList method will return an ArrayList
> > object from an Object[] array. *What is the easiest way to achieve this
> > when you only want a specific range of that Object[] array, say, its
> > first element up until it's length - 1 element?
>
> Arrays.asList(anArray).subList(startIndex, endIndex);
>
> Both the array list and the sub-list are lightweight wrappers, so there's
> no copying, just two method calls and some arithmetic on each access.
>

Be careful though that the returned list is not serializable (which is
logical, when you think about it). If you intend to send the subList
to another process, you have to make a copy before.

JB.

Jean-Baptiste Nizet