Array of Linked List Java

Question

So I have been trying to fix this by myself but I didn't find enough info on the subject.

In the next code, there is a function that receives an array of a linked list (Integer), the array is a representation of a square that has black and white squares inside (1 = white, 0 = black), the format is the next one: The first node of the linked list is white, every next node is the opposite color of the last node. For example if the square is: white -> white -> white -> black -> white -> black -> black the linked list would be 3 -> 1 -> 1 -> 2 -> null (if there are consecutive colors they sum up in the linked list as seen before). So my code is the next:

public static int[][] restorePicture (LinkedList[] linked_list) 
{
 boolean black = false;
 int[][] Input = new int [(linked_list.length)][];
 for(int k = 0; k < linked_list.length; k++)
 Input[k] = new int[linked_list[k].size()];
 for(int i = 0;i < linked_list.length; i++)
 {
 black = false; 
 int j = 0;
 while(linked_list[i].get(j) != linked_list[i].getLast())
 {
 if(black == false)
 {
 for(int z = (int) linked_list[i].get(j); z > 0 ;z--)
 Input[j++][i] = 1;
 black = true;
 }
 if(black == true)
 {
 for(int x = (int) linked_list[i].get(j); x > 0 ;x--)
 Input[j++][i] = 0;
 black = false;
 }
 }
 }
 for(int i = 0; i < Input.length; i++)
 for(int j = 0; j < Input[j].length; j++)
 System.out.println(Input[i][j]);
 return Input;
}

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• Idos: Why not show us the entire error? Also, indent your code
• Subir Kumar Sao: Please format the code.
• Daniel: Is there a class declaration? Something like "public class Test {" before the functions?
• newbieee: public static int[][] restorePicture (LinkedList<Integer>[] linked_list)
• OneCricketeer: Now try removing the parentheses around linked_list.length in the 2d int array.

Answer 1

i assume that you call the method 'restorePicture' with a simple LinkedList instead an Array of LinkedList. Thats why you get the error.

Check the method call at line 10 in your code. Compile error statements in Eclipse are quiet good.

The warning you get because you do not specify the type of LinkedList, so you have to change the parameter definition to.

public static int[][] restorePicture (LinkedList<Integer>[] linked_list) 

To create a new Array of LinkedLIst you have to code

LinkedList<Integer>[] linked_list = new LinkedList[input.length];

• Boris: I don't have any more errors, just a warning now. I'm not quite sure what you mean by what you said
• Khaled.K: I think the OP code will always throw OutOfBoundsException, because in the inner loop he does j++ twice
• Boris: Thanks man, a last small question, if I were to initialize an array of a linked list for example: LinkedList linked_list<Integer>[] = new LinkedList[input.length]<Integer>(); what would be the correct way to write it because that is wrong, thanks
• Binkan Salaryman: @Boris @SuppressWarnings({"unchecked"}) LinkedList<Integer>[] list = new LinkedList[length]; is the correct way. Welcome to java generics.
• Binkan Salaryman: @Boris The sentence "welcome to java generics" points to java's type erasure, which is a failure in design - your question is fine.