如何将一个数组列表的内容复制到另一个数组列表中？

You can use such trick:

myObject = new ArrayList<Object>(myTempObject);

or use

myObject = (ArrayList<Object>)myTempObject.clone();

You can get some information about clone() method here

But you should remember, that all these ways will give you a copy of your List, not all of its elements. So if you change one of the elements in your copied List, it will also be changed in your original List.

There are no implicit copies made in java via the assignment operator. Variables contain a reference value (pointer) and when you use = you're only coping that value.

In order to preserve the contents of myTempObject you would need to make a copy of it.

This can be done by creating a new ArrayList using the constructor that takes another ArrayList:

ArrayList<Object> myObject = new ArrayList<Object>(myTempObject);

Edit: As Bohemian points out in the comments below, is this what you're asking? By doing the above, both ArrayLists (myTempObject and myObject) would contain references to the same objects. If you actually want a new list that contains new copies of the objects contained in myTempObject then you would need to make a copy of each individual object in the original ArrayList

You need to clone() the individual object. Constructor and other methods perform shallow copy. You may try Collections.copy method.

to copy one list into the other list, u can use the method called Collection.copy(myObject myTempObject).now after executing these line of code u can see all the list values in the myObject.

originalArrayList.addAll(copyArrayList);

Please Note: When using the addAll() method to copy, the contents of both the array lists (originalArrayList and copyArrayList) refer to the same objects or contents. So if you modify any one of them the other will also reflect the same change.

If you don't wan't this then you need to copy each element from the originalArrayList to the copyArrayList, like using a for or while loop.

Came across this while facing the same issue myself.

Saying arraylist1 = arraylist2 sets them both to point at the same place so if you alter either the data alters and thus both lists always stay the same.

To copy values into an independent list I just used foreach to copy the contents:

ArrayList list1 = new ArrayList();
ArrayList list2 = new ArrayList();

fill list1 in whatever way you currently are.

foreach(<type> obj in list1)
{
list2.Add(obj);
}

Supopose you want to copy oldList into a new ArrayList object called newList

ArrayList<Object> newList = new ArrayList<>() ;


for (int i = 0 ; i<oldList.size();i++){
newList.add(oldList.get(i)) ;
}

These two lists are indepedant, changes to one are not reflected to the other one.

Lets try the example

     ArrayList<String> firstArrayList = new ArrayList<>();
firstArrayList.add("One");
firstArrayList.add("Two");
firstArrayList.add("Three");
firstArrayList.add("Four");
firstArrayList.add("Five");
firstArrayList.add("Six");
//copy array list content into another array list
ArrayList<String> secondArrayList=new ArrayList<>();
secondArrayList.addAll(firstArrayList);
//print all the content of array list
Iterator itr = secondArrayList.iterator();
while (itr.hasNext()) {
System.out.println(itr.next());
}

In print output as below

One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six

We can also do by using clone() method for which is used to create exact copy

for that try you can try as like

 **ArrayList<String>secondArrayList = (ArrayList<String>) firstArrayList.clone();**
And then print by using iterator
**Iterator itr = secondArrayList.iterator();
while (itr.hasNext()) {
System.out.println(itr.next());
}**

Copy of one list into second is quite simple , you can do that as below:-

ArrayList<List1> list1= new ArrayList<>();
ArrayList<List1> list2= new ArrayList<>();
//this will your copy your list1 into list2
list2.addAll(list1);

Straightforward way to make deep copy of original list is to add all element from one list to another list.

ArrayList<Object> originalList = new ArrayList<Object>();
ArrayList<Object> duplicateList = new ArrayList<Object>();


for(Object o : originalList) {
duplicateList.add(o);
}

Now If you make any changes to originalList it will not impact duplicateList.

Here is a workaround to copy all the objects from one arrayList to another:

 ArrayList<Object> myObject = new ArrayList<Object>();
ArrayList<Object> myTempObject = new ArrayList<Object>();


myObject.addAll(myTempObject.subList(0, myTempObject.size()));

subList is intended to return a List with a range of data. so you can copy the whole arrayList or part of it.

Suppose you have two arraylist of String type . Like

ArrayList<String> firstArrayList ;//This array list is not having any data.


ArrayList<String> secondArrayList = new ArrayList<>();//Having some data.

Now we have to copy the data of second array to first arraylist like this,

firstArrayList = new ArrayList<>(secondArrayList );

Done!!

The simplest way is:

ArrayList<Object> myObject = new ArrayList<Object>();
// fill up data here
ArrayList<Object> myTempObject = new ArrayList(myObject);