Question

We’ve not covered ArrayLists only Arrays and 2D arrays. What I need to do is be able to read from an ArrayList from another class. The main aim is to read from them in a for loop and use the values stored in them to display items. However, I have made this quick program to test it out and keep getting this error

java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0
    at java.util.ArrayList.rangeCheck(ArrayList.java:604)
    at java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:382)
    at Main.Main(Main.java:14)

Here is my code

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Main
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        System.out.println("Test");
        ArrayList <Objects> xcoords = new ArrayList<Objects>();

        for( int x = 1 ; x < xcoords.size() ; x++ )
        {
            System.out.println(xcoords.get(x));
        }
    }
}

And then the class where the ArrayList is

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Objects
{
    public void xco()
    {
        ArrayList xcoords = new ArrayList();
        //X coords
        //Destroyable
        xcoords.add(5);
        xcoords.add(25);
        xcoords.add(5);
        xcoords.add(5);
        xcoords.add(25);
        xcoords.add(5);
        //Static Walls
        xcoords.add(600);
        xcoords.add(400);
        xcoords.add(600);
    }
}

If someone can point me in the correct direction it would be so valuable. I’ve tried to debug however I can get anything helpful.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Strictly speaking, the exception is due to indexing location 1 of an ArrayList with 0 elements. Notice where you start you for loop index variable x. But consider this line:

ArrayList <Objects> xcoords = new ArrayList<Objects>();

xcoords points to a new, empty ArrayList, not the one you created in class Objects. To get that ArrayList, change the method xco like

public ArrayList<Integer> xco() { // make sure to parameterize the ArrayList
    ArrayList<Integer> xcoords = new ArrayList<Integer>();

    // .. add all the elements ..

    return xcoords;
}

then, in your main method

public static void main(String [] args) { // add correct arguments

    //..
    ArrayList <Integer> xcoords = (new Objects()).xco();

    for( int x = 0 ; x < xcoords.size() ; x++ ) { // start from index 0
        System.out.println(xcoords.get(x));
    }
}