How to convert List Integer to int in Java

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I'm new to Java. How can i convert a List<Integer> to int[] in Java? I'm confused because List.toArray() actually returns an Object[], which can be cast to nether Integer[] or int[].

Right now I'm using a loop to do so:

int[] toIntArray(List<Integer> list){
  int[] ret = new int[list.size()];
  for(int i = 0;i < ret.length;i++)
    ret[i] = list.get(i);
  return ret;
}
Oct 30, 2018 in Java by Sushmita
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  • List<T>.toArray won't work because there's no conversion from Integer to int
  • You can't use int as a type argument for generics, so it would have to be an int-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).

answered Oct 30, 2018 by Daisy
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In addition to Commons Lang, you can do this with Guava's method Ints.toArray(Collection<Integer>collection):

List<Integer> list = ...
int[] ints = Ints.toArray(list);

This saves you having to do the intermediate array conversion that the Commons Lang equivalent requires yourself.

answered Aug 20, 2019 by Sirajul
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