New to arraylist

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Hi guy,

I am very confuse about the arraylist and I would like to check with you guy with my understanding with arraylist.

1) I understand that arraylist only hold object types and they did not hold primitive types right?

2) If you want to convert object type to primitive type you have to use wrapper class or casting is it?

3) Must data type be declared for creating new ArrayList?

4) If I use the arraylist get() method with or without data type declaration is it return object type?

Thank you for reading my post, I hope I can able to clear my confuse.

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Code:

import java.util.*;

public class ArrayListTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // I understand that arraylist only hold object types and
        // they did not hold primitive types right?
        // Yes. In j2se 1.5 autoboxing was introduced so you
        // can treat them as if they will accept primitives.
        List<Integer> list1 = new ArrayList<Integer>();
        list1.add(Integer.valueOf(1));
        list1.add(2);
        System.out.printf("list1.get(0) = %d  list1.get(1) = %d%n",
                           list1.get(0), list1.get(1));

        // If you want to convert object type to primitive type you
        // have to use wrapper class or casting is it?
        // Before j2se 1.5 - yes. You can still do this after v1.5
        List<Integer> list2 = new ArrayList<Integer>();
        list2.add(Integer.valueOf(21));
        int day1 = ((Integer)list2.get(0)).intValue();
        int day2 = list2.get(0).intValue();
        System.out.printf("day = %d  day2 = %d%n", day1, day2);

        // Must data type be declared for creating new ArrayList?
        // In j2se 1.5+ it is recommended but not required. If you
        // don't you can get "Xlint:unchecked" compiler warnings
        // which can be suppressed in later versions.
        List list3 = new ArrayList();  // compiler warning
        List<String> list4 = new ArrayList<String>();

        // If I use the arraylist get() method with or without data
        // type declaration is it return object type?
        list3.add("hello");
        list4.add("world");
        System.out.println("list3.get(0) type = " +
                            list3.get(0).getClass().getName());
        System.out.println("list4.get(0) type = " +
                            list4.get(0).getClass().getName());
        // You don't have to cast from Object to specific type if
        // you use generic types. You do need to cast if you do not
        // use generic types.
        //String sx = list3.get(0);    // compile error
        String s3 = (String)list3.get(0);
        String s4 = list4.get(0);
    }
}

[kleave]

thank alot for your reply. Now I understand better.