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search in java ArrayList

If I have an ArrayList of employee objects and each object contains a string: employeeName and long: employeeNumber.

How do I search the list for an employee given their employee number and return the employee object?

Answer 1

Something along these lines. But it could be better to put the objects in a HashMap<Long,Employee> where long is the id, and Employee is the employee belonging to that id.

public Employee getEmployeeById(long empId){
    for(Employee e : employeeList) {
        if(e.getId() == empId){
            return e;
        }
    }
    return null;
}