Java: Converting lists of one element type to a list of another type

Question

I\'m writing an adapter framework where I need to convert a list of objects from one class to another. I can iterate through the source list to do this as in

Java: Best

Answer 1

Here's an on-the-fly approach. (There must be something already like this in the jdk; I just can't find it.)

  package com.gnahraf.util;

  import java.util.AbstractList;
  import java.util.List;
  import java.util.Objects;
  import java.util.function.Function;

  /**
   * 
   */
  public class Lists {

    private Lists() { }


    public static  List transform(List source, Function mapper) {
      return new ListView(source, mapper);
    }

    protected static class ListView extends AbstractList {

      private final List source;
      private final Function mapper;

      protected ListView(List source, Function mapper) {
        this.source = Objects.requireNonNull(source, "source");
        this.mapper = Objects.requireNonNull(mapper, "mapper");
      }

      @Override
      public V get(int index) {
        return mapper.apply(source.get(index));
      }

      @Override
      public int size() {
        return source.size();
      }

    }

  }