Philipp, Wouldn't Arrays.asList <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Arrays.html#asList-T...-> work for you?
e.g. List<String> strings = Arrays.asList("1", "2", "3"); or List<String> strings = Arrays.asList("1", "2", "3", "4", "five"); Regards, Kedar On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Philipp Bibik <phil...@bibik.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm Philipp Bibik and a 16 jear old free time developer. > I was born and live in Germany and have only an bad school english, > so sorry for any grammar and spelling mistakes. > > I have an idea to improve the Java ArrayList API. > Lists are one of the most imported and used components in the Java API. > Although there are relay well designed, there was always something that > annoyed me. > > If you want to create an ArrayList with "String" as diamond operator and > add the Strings > "1" to "5" to them, you need to do something like this: > > ArrayList<String> strings = new ArrayList<>(); > strings.add("1"); > strings.add("2"); > strings.add("3"); > strings.add("4"); > strings.add("5"); > > I added a few lines of code the the ArrayList class: > > /** > * @param e array whose elements are to be placed into this list > */ > @SafeVarargs > public ArrayList(E... e) { > elementData = e; > size = elementData.length; > } > > After adding the lines above I was able to accomplish the same result > with 77 chars / 5 lines less code: > > ArrayList<String> strings = new ArrayList<>("1", "2", "3", "4", "5"); > > In my opinion adding a constructor like this to the "java.util.ArrayList" > class and > all other (at least some) classes, implementing the "java.util.List" > interface > would be a big improvement to Java SE9. > > Thanks for reading, > > - Philipp Bibik. >