Searching in a ArrayList with custom objects for certain strings

Question

I have a ArrayList with custom objects. I want to search inside this ArrayList for Strings.

The class for the objects look like this:

public class Da         


        

Answer 1

Use Apache CollectionUtils:

CollectionUtils.find(myList, new Predicate() {
   public boolean evaluate(Object o) {
      return name.equals(((MyClass) o).getName());
   }
}