How to convert Integer[] to int[] array in Java?

Question

Is there a fancy way to cast an Integer array to an int array? (I don\'t want to iterate over each element; I\'m looking for an elegant and quick way to write it)

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Answer 1

If you can consider using Apache commons ArrayUtils then there is a simple toPrimitive API:

public static double[] toPrimitive(Double[] array, double valueForNull)

Converts an array of object Doubles to primitives handling null.

This method returns null for a null input array.

Answer 2

You can use Stream APIs of Java 8

int[] intArray = Arrays.stream(array).mapToInt(Integer::intValue).toArray();

Answer 3

Using Guava, you can do the following:

int[] intArray = Ints.toArray(intList);

If you're using Maven, add this dependency:

<dependency>
   <groudId>com.google.guava</groupId>
   <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
   <version>18.0</version>
</dependency>

Answer 4

If you have access to the Apache lang library, then you can use the ArrayUtils.toPrimitive(Integer[]) method like this:

int[] primitiveArray = ArrayUtils.toPrimitive(objectArray);

Answer 5

You can download the org.apache.commons.lang3 jar file which provides ArrayUtils class.
Using the below line of code will solve the problem:

ArrayUtils.toPrimitive(Integer[] nonPrimitive)

Where nonPrimitive is the Integer[] to be converted into the int[].