Yet another Wrapper Class confused guy.

Java is a pretty much new language to me and I'm still in the early learning process of it, I had myself making some pratice with Vector objects and of curse Wrapper Classes so I could use native variables with it but it looks like that those guides I'm reading from didn't clear my mind about it so much.

So I filled this Vector (data) with a few int numbers inside a setMethod and trying now to pull them out in a getMethod to operate with them; I basically tried to use a for iteration to pick each element and assign it to a Integer variable, and then to revert the number to it's native int type using the intValue() method. The original thing was pretty much like this:

Code:

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int pre=0;
for (int i=0; i<data.size();i++){
                        Integer num = new Integer ( data.get(i) );
                        per+=num.intValue();
                }

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which obviously didn't work.

Googling around I somehow managed to accomplish it but I'm not sure if I found the best way to do it so I'd like to be sure about it before moving on:

Code:

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int pre=0;
for (int i=0; i<data.size();i++){
                        String [COLOR="Sienna"]buf[/COLOR] = String.valueOf(data.get(i));
                        Integer num = new Integer([COLOR="Sienna"]buf[/COLOR]);
                        per+=num.intValue();
                }

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So I pull my data out in a string using it's .valueOf before I could convert and treat it as an int. Now the n00b question is, was there a most direct way to accomplish it?

Quote:

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filled this Vector (data) with a few int numbers

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Vectors only hold objects not primitives. If you have a young version of java, the compiler will convert int to Integer for you (boxing). So your Vector holds Integer objects. You can get them out by casting the object returned by get(i) :
num = (Integer)get(i);
Given the Integer object, you can easily get its value. In fact the compiler will do the work for you (boxing again): per += num;

Also there are Generics that allow you to specify the type that Vector will hold, allows the compiler to type check adds and to do casting for you on gets.

And that clears up my mess, thanks :)