how to check if object already exists in a list

Question

I have a list

  List myList

and I am adding items to a list and I want to check if that object is already in the list.

Answer 1

Another point to mention is that you should ensure that your equality function is as you expect. You should override the equals method to set up what properties of your object have to match for two instances to be considered equal.

Then you can just do mylist.contains(item)