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DrVonTrap
DrVonTrap

Reputation: 33

Add Objects from one ArrayList to another

I have 9 ArrayLists and I'm trying to condense them all down into one at a given point.

at the moment dotGrid is a matrix of ArrayLists, searchX and searchY simply specify which ArrayLists to add to neighbours.

for(int searchX = sector[0] - 1; searchX < sector[0] + 2; searchX++){
  for(int searchY = sector[1] - 1; searchY < sector[1] + 2; searchY++){
    if(searchX >= 0 && searchX < 16 && searchY >= 0 && searchY < 16){
      neighbours.add(dotGrid[searchX][searchY]);
    }
  }
}

from what I understand neighbours.addAll() should work, but it isn't.

I really have been searching quite hard, but haven't been able to find a satisfactory answer.

thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4593

Answers (2)

Mike Samuel
Mike Samuel

Reputation: 120516

In

neighbours.add(dotGrid[searchX][searchY])

dotGrid is an array. Typically, you can't instantiate an array of a fully qualified generic type:

List<Double>[][] dotGrid = new List<Double>[n][];

will fail with a type error, so I'm going to assume that dotGrid is partially typed?

List[][] dotGrid;

which means that addAll(dotGrid[searchX][searchY]) will fail because you are trying to add all elements of a List to a List<Double>.

Ideally, you wouldn't mix object arrays with generic lists, and instead redefine dotGrid to be a list of lists of lists:

List<List<List<Double>>> dotGrid;

If that won't work, you can try to @SuppressWarning("unchecked") to make sure that dotGrid has a fully qualified type after instantiation, or do something like the following

@SuppressWarning("unchecked")
List<Double> cell = (List<Double>) dotGrid[searchX][searchY];
neighbours.addAll(cell);

Upvotes: 2

Robin
Robin

Reputation: 36611

The List#add method expects an element which can be added to the List. So if your dotGrid is a 'matrix of ArrayLists', you try to add an ArrayList to your List instead of adding all elements of that List. You should use the addAll method instead as you mentioned in your answer, but in your code you use the regular add method

neighbours.addAll(dotGrid[searchX][searchY]);

The following code works just fine, illustrating the usage of the addAll method

List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>( Arrays.asList( 0, 1 ) );
List<Integer> anotherList = new ArrayList<Integer>(  );
anotherList.addAll( list );

Upvotes: 0

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