Copy Elements of ArrayList to Vector Example

Copying ArrayList elements from Vector is so simple by using predefined method in Collections class.

Collections.copy(vector,arrayList);

Java Collections_ArrayList to Vector Example_JavabynataraJ

/*This java example shows how to copy elements of Java ArrayList to Java Vector using
copy method of Collections class.
*/

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Vector;
public class CopyElementsOfArrayListToVectorExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {

//create an ArrayList object

  ArrayList arrayList = new ArrayList();
  //Add elements to Arraylist
  arrayList.add("1");
  arrayList.add("4");
  arrayList.add("2");
  arrayList.add("5");
  arrayList.add("3");
  //create a Vector object
  Vector v = new Vector();
  //Add elements to Vector
  v.add("A");
  v.add("B");
  v.add("D");
  v.add("E");
  v.add("F");
  v.add("G");
  v.add("H");

  System.out.println("Before copy, Vector Contains : " + v);
  Collections.copy(v,arrayList);
  System.out.println("After Copy, Vector Contains : " + v);
 }
}

To copy elements of Java ArrayList to Java Vector use,

static void copy(List dstList, List sourceList) method of Collections class.

This method copies all elements of source list to destination list.

After copy index of the elements in both source and destination lists would be identical.

The destination list must be long enough to hold all copied elements. If it is

longer than that, the rest of the destination list's elements would remain

unaffected.

copy all elements of ArrayList to Vector using copy method of Collections class

Please note that, If Vector is not long enough to hold all elements of

ArrayList, it throws IndexOutOfBoundsException.

Output would be
Before copy Vector Contains : [A, B, D, E, F, G, H]
After Copy Vector Contains : [1, 4, 2, 5, 3, G, H]

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