How to Iterate through two ArrayLists Simultaneously? [duplicate]

Answer 1

If you do this often you may consider using a helper function to zip two lists into one pair list:

public static <A, B> List<Pair<A, B>> zip(List<A> listA, List<B> listB) {
    if (listA.size() != listB.size()) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Lists must have same size");
    }

    List<Pair<A, B>> pairList = new LinkedList<>();

    for (int index = 0; index < listA.size(); index++) {
        pairList.add(Pair.of(listA.get(index), listB.get(index)));
    }
    return pairList;
}

You will also need a Pair implementation. Apache commons lang package has a proper one.

And with these you can now elegantly iterate on the pairlist:

ArrayList<JRadioButton> category = new ArrayList<JRadioButton>();
ArrayList<Integer> cat_ids = new ArrayList<Integer>();

for (Pair<JRadioButton, Integer> item : zip(category , cat_ids)) {
   // do something with JRadioButton
   item.getLeft()...
   // do something with Integer
   item.getRight()...
}

Answer 2

java8 style:

private static <T1, T2> void iterateSimultaneously(Iterable<T1> c1, Iterable<T2> c2, BiConsumer<T1, T2> consumer) {
    Iterator<T1> i1 = c1.iterator();
    Iterator<T2> i2 = c2.iterator();
    while (i1.hasNext() && i2.hasNext()) {
        consumer.accept(i1.next(), i2.next());
    }
}
//
iterateSimultaneously(category, cay_id, (JRadioButton b, Integer i) -> {
    // do stuff...
});

Answer 3

Try this

ArrayList<JRadioButton> category = new ArrayList<JRadioButton>();
ArrayList<Integer> cat_ids = new ArrayList<Integer>();
for (int i = 0; i < category.size(); i++) { 
    JRadioButton cat = category.get(i);
    Integer id= cat_ids.get(i);
    ..
}

Answer 4

Although you are expecting both sizes to be same, just to be on safer side get the sizes for both of them and make sure they are equal.

Let that size value be count. Then use generic for loop, iterate till count and acess the values as array indexes. If 'i' is the index, then acess as below in the for loop.

category[i] and cat_ids[i] 

category[i].isSelected() and so on

Answer 5

You can use Collection#iterator:

Iterator<JRadioButton> it1 = category.iterator();
Iterator<Integer> it2 = cats_ids.iterator();

while (it1.hasNext() && it2.hasNext()) {
    ...
}

Answer 6

ArrayList<JRadioButton> category = new ArrayList<JRadioButton>();
ArrayList<Integer> cat_ids = new ArrayList<Integer>();
Iterator<JRadioButton> itrJRB = category.iterator();
Iterator<Integer> itrInteger = cat_ids.iterator();
while(itrJRB.hasNext() && itrInteger.hasNext()) {
    // put your logic here
}