Arrays.asList() of an array

Question

What is wrong with this conversion?

public int getTheNumber(int[] factors) {
    ArrayList f = new ArrayList(Arrays.asList(factors));  
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Answer 1

You are trying to cast int[] to Integer[], this is not possible.

You can use commons-lang's ArrayUtils to convert the ints to Integers before getting the List from the array:

public int getTheNumber(int[] factors) {
    Integer[] integers = ArrayUtils.toObject(factors);
    ArrayList f = new ArrayList(Arrays.asList(integers));
    Collections.sort(f);
    return f.get(0)*f.get(f.size()-1);
}