What does List Iterator's add() method do to the iterator?

Question

I want to be able to insert elements to the ArrayList using ListIterator, but somehow I am confused even after reading the documentat

Answer 1

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.ListIterator;

public class listTest {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

         ArrayList<String> al = new ArrayList<String>();
         al.add("test");
         al.add("ref");
         ListIterator<String> ltr= al.listIterator();
         while(ltr.hasNext())
         {
         int pos =ltr.nextIndex();
          if (pos==1)
            {
              ltr.add("ted");
           }
              ltr.next();
         }
         System.out.println(al);
    }

}

Answer 2

I don't know why you want to insert elements to ArraList by ListIterator. You can simply do this by ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(s));

But anyway you've already added all the elements of an Array to ArrayList with the approach you've mentioned. You just need to iterate through ArrayList in Proper way like this :

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.ListIterator;

 public class ListIteratorTest {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    String[] s = { "Hi", "I", "am", "Ankit" };

    ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
    ListIterator<String> listIterator = list.listIterator();

    for (int i = 0; i < s.length; ++i) {
        listIterator.add(s[i]);
    }

    //Iterate using ListIterator
    while (listIterator.hasNext()) {
        System.out.println((String) listIterator.next());
    }

    //Iterate by Enhanced For Loop
    for (String val : list) {
        System.out.println(val);
    }
  }
}

Answer 3

You are not using iterator properly. The correct way using iterators is traverse the list with the iterator itself rather than by index.

ListIterator<SomeObject> listIterator = list.listIterator();

while(listIterator.hasNext()){
  SomeObject o = listIterator.next();
  listIterator.add(new SomeObject());
}

Read the ListIterator#add()

A simple example:

public static void main(String args []){      
        List<String> list= new ArrayList<String>();
        list.add("hi");
        list.add("whats up");
        list.add("how are you");
        list.add("bye");

        ListIterator<String> iterator = list.listIterator();
        int i=0;
        while(iterator.hasNext()){
            iterator.next();
            iterator.add(Integer.toString(i++));                
        }

        System.out.println(list);
        //output: [hi, 0, whats up, 1, how are you, 2, bye, 3]

    }
 }