Re: Java Collections List : Converting from List '<Column <String1, String2>>' to 'List <String1>'

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:56:21 -0500
Message-ID:
<ijolmm$4a6$1@news.albasani.net>
On 02/19/2011 08:01 AM, Eric Sosman wrote:

On 2/19/2011 7:05 AM, asil klin wrote:

I have a function that returns a list like this:-

List<Column<String1, String2>>

Next I want to pass this list to a 2nd function, but 2nd function just needs
a list which contains only 1st part (string1) of the Column(s) of the above
list.

So I want pass just this list to 2nd function:-

List<String1>

What would be the best way to do this ??


You'll need to build a new List<String> and populate it by
extracting data from the given list. It would look something like
this (I'm inventing a few methods and names):

List<Column<String1,String2>> original = ...;
List<String1> reduced = new ArrayList<String1>(original.size());
for (Column<String1,String2> col : original) {
String1 first = col.getFirst();
  reduced.add(first);
}

There are, of course, about one and a half gazillion different ways
to rearrange and repackage this logic, but one way or another you'll
have to do something like it. As far as I know, Java has no `mapcar'.


Another approach would be to use standard API calls.

   ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT a, b, c FROM TABLE2");
   ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rs.getMetaData();
   int kount = rsmd.getColumnCount();
   List <String1> reduced = new ArrayList <String1> (kount);
   for ( int ix = 0; ix < kount; ++ix )
   {
     reduced.add( rsmd.getColumnName().toString() );
   }

I had to make up 'String1.toString()''s behavior because I know nothing about
your (very, very badly-named) 'String1' type. I hope its 'toString()' does
the right thing.

If you aren't using a 'ResultSet' to determine the columns of interest you can
get them from 'DatabaseMetaData#getColumns()'. Studying the API is a really,
really, really, really, really, really good idea.

http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/sql/ResultSetMetaData.html
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/sql/DatabaseMetaData.html

--
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.

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