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How to convert an Array to a Set in Java

Asked 2010-06-17T18:23:56.460
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I would like to convert an array to a Set in Java. There are some obvious ways of doing this (i.e. with a loop) but I would like something a bit neater, something like:

java.util.Arrays.asList(Object[] a);

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Set<T> mySet = new HashSet<T>();
Collections.addAll(mySet, myArray);

That's Collections.addAll(java.util.Collection, T...) from JDK 6.

Additionally: what if our array is full of primitives?

For JDK < 8, I would just write the obvious for loop to do the wrap and add-to-set in one pass.

For JDK >= 8, an attractive option is something like:

Arrays.stream(intArray).boxed().collect(Collectors.toSet());
answered 2010-06-17T18:37:50.547
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After you do Arrays.asList(array) you can execute Set set = new HashSet(list);

Here is a sample method, you can write:

public <T> Set<T> GetSetFromArray(T[] array) {
    return new HashSet<T>(Arrays.asList(array));
}
answered 2010-06-17T18:27:28.467
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new HashSet<Object>(Arrays.asList(Object[] a));

But I think this would be more efficient:

final Set s = new HashSet<Object>();    
for (Object o : a) { s.add(o); }         
answered 2010-06-17T18:28:44.750

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