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Converting from <Datatype1>[] to <Datatype2>[]

Anonymous User 1685 09-Jul-2015
Is it possible to convert from a list of datatypes without going through the trouble of looping through the entire list.

I.e:b = {"1", "2"}; 
Integer[] a = (Integer[]) b; //not actually runnable

Not really necessary, but it would be nice.
java java  collection  array 
Updated on 09-Jul-2015
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09-Jul-2015
In Java 8, you can do
Integer[] integerArray = 
    Stream.of(stringArray)
          .map(Integer::parseInt)
          .toArray(Integer[]::new);
If you want an int-Array, you can do:
int[] intArray = 
Stream.of(stringArray)
      .mapToInt(Integer::parseInt)
      .toArray();
Stream.of() creates a stream from the array. map maps every element of the stream to an Integer using Integer::parseInt. Using mapToInt, you can create an Intstream, which is a specialization of streams for integer primitives. Integer[]::new is a method reference to an array constructor.

This assumes all elements of the array are parseable, if not it will throw an exception.

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