How to convert an ArrayList containing Integers to primitive int array?

Question

I\'m trying to convert an ArrayList containing Integer objects to primitive int[] with the following piece of code, but it is throwing compile time error. Is it possible to

Answer 1

This works nice for me :)

Found at https://www.techiedelight.com/convert-list-integer-array-int/

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

class ListUtil
{
    // Program to convert list of integer to array of int in Java
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        List list = Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3, 4, 5);

        int[] primitive = list.stream()
                            .mapToInt(Integer::intValue)
                            .toArray();

        System.out.println(Arrays.toString(primitive));
    }
}