Possible to instantiate array with auto-instantiated empty objects?

I really don't think there is I might be wrong, but I don't think so. The Collection api specifies that the constructor of ArrayList (and it's associated siblings) take a Collection so you could give them another type of list and it would be happy, or anything else from the Collection group but not an array.

Follow the bouncing link.

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/collections/index.html

Hope this helps,

PS.

puckstopper31a at 2007-7-8 21:57:24 >

You could write a fill method like the following, although I threw up in my mouth a little when I wrote this code...

import java.util.*;

public class Test {

public static void main(String[] args) {

List[] a = (List[]) fill(new ArrayList[5]);

for (int i = 0; i<a.length; ++i)

a[i].add("testing");

}

static Object[] fill(Object[] a) {

try {

Class cls = a.getClass().getComponentType();

for(int i = 0; i><a.length; ++i) {

a[i] = cls.newInstance();

}

} catch (Exception e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

return a;

}

}

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DrLaszloJamfa at 2007-7-8 21:57:24 >