Re: Removing objects from iterating collection

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obaqueiro@gmail.com

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Date:

14 Nov 2006 06:32:56 -0800

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Hendrik Maryns wrote:

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obaqueiro@gmail.com schreef:

Hello, I've got a question about the behaviour of Java:

I've got this code:

ArrayList<MyObject> objects = new ArrayList<MyObject>().
... (some code adding objects to array list)...
... some other code...

for (MyObject obj: this.objects) {
     if (obj.getFlag()==true){
                  objects.remove(obj);
     }
}

My main concern is what is the behaviour of the for(...) after removing
the obj from the objects list? is this a safe way to proceed? I need to
check all the objects in the list and then remove some of them if
certain condition is true. Usually I make it with for(int
i=0;i<objects.size();i++){...} and then after I remove the object I set
i to 0 (it might be possible just to avoid incrementing the counter).

But I want to know what is the behaivour of the iterator structure [
for(X:Y){} ] in these cases.

It will throw a ConcurrentModificationException, as the Javadoc
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/ArrayList.html would
have told you.

Thanks, I guess I did not know where exactly to look for.

Is there any better way to achieve what I am trying to do?

Yes, explicitly use the (List)Iterator, it has a remove() method. As an
extra bonus, it will be more efficient, since it doesn't have to do a
lookup for the remove.

for (Iterator iter = objects.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) {
    if (iter.next().getFlag()){
         iter.remove();
    }
}

Yeah, this seems way better.

Note that you do not need the ==true, and you could have chosen a more
expressive name instead of 'flag'.
H.

Sorry for the stupid names and implementation, in fact the example I
shown was a modification (generalization) of my code, the real one has
some other comparison but the idea is the same...

Thaks a lot.

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