Arrays.asList() of an array

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Let’s consider the following simplified example:

public class Example {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int[] factors = {1, 2, 3};
        ArrayList<Integer> f = new ArrayList(Arrays.asList(factors));
        System.out.println(f);
    }
}

At the println line this prints something like “[[I@190d11]” which means that you have actually constructed an ArrayList that contains int arrays.

Your IDE and compiler should warn about unchecked assignments in that code. You should always use new ArrayList<Integer>() or new ArrayList<>() instead of new ArrayList(). If you had used it, there would have been a compile error because of trying to pass List<int[]> to the constructor.

There is no autoboxing from int[] to Integer[], and anyways autoboxing is only syntactic sugar in the compiler, so in this case you need to do the array copy manually:

public static int getTheNumber(int[] factors) {
    List<Integer> f = new ArrayList<Integer>();
    for (int factor : factors) {
        f.add(factor); // after autoboxing the same as: f.add(Integer.valueOf(factor));
    }
    Collections.sort(f);
    return f.get(0) * f.get(f.size() - 1);
}

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