Is there any direct way to convert int array to Integer array with out looping element by element.
Brute force way will be
int [] a = {1,2,3};
Integer [] b = new Integer[a.length];
for(i =0; i<a.length; i++)
b[i]= i;
Is there any direct way with out traveling the entire array?
You've found the "only" way to do it using pure Java. I prefer to make the Integer construction explicit, via
int[] a = {1,2,3};
Integer[] b = new Integer[a.length];
for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
b[i] = Integer.valueOf(a[i]);
}
Note that Apache has some utilities in Apache Lang, which basically do the same thing; however, the call looks more like
Integer[] newArray = ArrayUtils.toObject(oldArray);
Of course, if you don't include the Apache libraries, you could write your own static function to make the code look pretty (if that's your concern).
There's noting built in JDK but if you have apache commons, you could use
There are third-party libraries which will do the dirty work for you, but they're just going to loop under the covers.
E.g. with Guava:
int[] primitives = {1,2,3};
List<Integer> boxed = Ints.asList(primitives);
Integer[] boxedArray = Ints.asList(primitives).toArray(new Integer[]);
They don't give a one-method conversion presumably because you probably shouldn't be using arrays anyway but rather a List.
That's really the only way. When you're doing b[i] = i Java is auto unboxing your int to Integer. However that doesn't work when going from an int-array to an Integer-array.
