Re: Customize toString() for arrays...?

From:
Alan Gutierrez <alan@blogometer.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:40:47 -0500
Message-ID:
<i2aku1$iuv$1@news.eternal-september.org>
markspace wrote:

markspace wrote:

Hmm.... I might want to do that...


This seems to work:

package test;
import java.lang.reflect.Array;

public class Util {

   static public <T extends Number> T[] autoBox( Class<T> type,
      Object array )
   {
      int length = Array.getLength( array );
      Object retVal = Array.newInstance( type, length );
      for( int i = 0; i < length; i++ ) {
         Array.set( retVal, i, Array.get( array, i) );
      }
      return (T[])retVal;
   }
}

Useage:

public static void main( String[] args )
{
  int[] test = {1,2,3};
  System.out.println( Arrays.asList( autoBox( Integer.class, test ) ) );
}

prints:
[1, 2, 3]


Oh, I see the problem now...

import java.util.Arrays;

public class AsList {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         Integer[] boxes = { 1, 2, 3 };
         int[] primitives = { 1, 2, 3 };
         System.out.println(Arrays.asList(boxes));
         System.out.println(Arrays.asList(primitives));
     }
}

[alan@postojna ~]$ javac AsList.java
[alan@postojna ~]$ java AsList
[1, 2, 3]
[[I@10d448]

Nice solution, Mark Space. I looked into removing the unsafe array cast,
but it appears as though it can't be helped.

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