Google Guava “zip” two lists

Question

Using Google Guava (Google Commons), is there a way to merge two equally sized lists into one list, with the new list containing composite objects of the two input lists?

Answer 1

Here's a version with no explicit iteration, but it's getting pretty ugly.

List persons = ImmutableList.copyOf(Iterables.transform(
    ContiguousSet.create(Range.closedOpen(0, names.size()),
        DiscreteDomain.integers()),
    new Function() {
      @Override
      public Person(Integer index) {
        return new Person(names.get(index), ages.get(index));
      }
    }));

It's really not much better than having explicit iteration, and you probably want some level of bounds checking to ensure that the two inputs are indeed of the same size.