Why do I get an UnsupportedOperationException when trying to remove an element from a List?

Question

I have this code:

public static String SelectRandomFromTemplate(String template,int count) {
   String[] split = template.split(\"|\");
   List         


        

Answer 1

You can't remove, nor can you add to a fixed-size-list of Arrays.

But you can create your sublist from that list.

list = list.subList(0, list.size() - (list.size() - count));

public static String SelectRandomFromTemplate(String template, int count) {
   String[] split = template.split("\\|");
   List list = Arrays.asList(split);
   Random r = new Random();
   while( list.size() > count ) {
      list = list.subList(0, list.size() - (list.size() - count));
   }
   return StringUtils.join(list, ", ");
}

*Other way is

ArrayList al = new ArrayList(Arrays.asList(template));

this will create ArrayList which is not fixed size like Arrays.asList