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

Yes, on Arrays.asList, returning a fixed-size list.

Other than using a linked list, simply use addAll method list.

Example:

String idList = "123,222,333,444";

List<String> parentRecepeIdList = new ArrayList<String>();

parentRecepeIdList.addAll(Arrays.asList(idList.split(","))); 

parentRecepeIdList.add("555");

Answer 2

Replace

List<String> list=Arrays.asList(split);

to

List<String> list = New ArrayList<>();
list.addAll(Arrays.asList(split));

or

List<String> list = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(split));

or

List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(split));

or (Better for Remove elements)

List<String> list = new LinkedList<>(Arrays.asList(split));

Answer 3

Just read the JavaDoc for the asList method:

Returns a {@code List} of the objects in the specified array. The size of the {@code List} cannot be modified, i.e. adding and removing are unsupported, but the elements can be set. Setting an element modifies the underlying array.

This is from Java 6 but it looks like it is the same for the android java.

EDIT

The type of the resulting list is Arrays.ArrayList, which is a private class inside Arrays.class. Practically speaking, it is nothing but a List-view on the array that you've passed with Arrays.asList. With a consequence: if you change the array, the list is changed too. And because an array is not resizeable, remove and add operation must be unsupported.

Answer 4

Arrays.asList() uses fixed size array internally.
You can't dynamically add or remove from thisArrays.asList()

Use this

Arraylist<String> narraylist=new ArrayList(Arrays.asList());

In narraylist you can easily add or remove items.

Answer 5

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<String> 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<String> al = new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(template));

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