Concurrency Issue

[thebigbroski]

So today I learned you can't modify an arraylist while you are iterating through it. In this case, I must be able to add elements though, while staying inside my loop.
Any ideas? I tried using the Iterator class based off some examples online.
Excuse my in-elegant code, it was something It's a spur-of-the-moment assignment.

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;


public class MiceCalculator {
	ArrayList<Mouse>mouseList = new ArrayList<Mouse>();
	int mousecount = 0;
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		MiceCalculator calc = new MiceCalculator();
		calc.run();
	}
	public void run()
	{		
		
	mouseList.add(new Mouse(true, true, 0, 6, 0));
	mouseList.add(new Mouse(false, true, 0, 0, 0));
	mouseList.add(new Mouse(true, true, 0, 0, 0));
	mouseList.add(new Mouse(true, true, 0, 0, 0));
	mouseList.add(new Mouse(true, true, 0, 0, 0));

		int daysRan = 0;
		
		while(daysRan<=151)
		{
			for (Iterator<Mouse> it = mouseList.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
			    Mouse m = it.next();

				if(m.isFemale && m.isAdult)
				{
					if(m.daysSinceLitter==40)
					{
						m.daysSinceLitter=0;
						addLitter();
					}
				}
				
				if(m.isFemale && m.isAdult!=true)
				{
					if(m.daysSinceLitter==120)
					{
						m.isAdult = true;
						m.daysSinceLitter=0;
						addLitter();
					}
				}
				m.daysSinceLitter++;
			}
			daysRan++;

		}
		System.out.println(mousecount);
	}
	public void addLitter()
	{
		System.out.println("here");
		for(int x = 0;x<=3;x++)
		{
		mouseList.add(new Mouse());
		mousecount++;
		}
	}
	public void addDay()
	{
		for(Mouse m : mouseList)
		{
			m.daysOld ++;
			m.daysSinceLitter++;
		}
	}
	
	public class Mouse
	{
		boolean isFemale = false;
		boolean isAdult = false;
		int daysSinceLitter = 0;
		int totallitterProduced = 0;
		int daysOld = 0;
	    
		public Mouse()
		{
		}
		
		public Mouse(boolean isaFemale, boolean isAnAdult, int DaysSinceLitter, int totalLitterProduced, int daysold)
		{
			isFemale = isaFemale;
			isAdult = isAnAdult;
			daysSinceLitter = DaysSinceLitter;
			totallitterProduced = totalLitterProduced;
			daysOld = daysold;
		}

	}
}

[stevanity]

Instead of an iterator, you can use the following for loop:

for(int i=0;i<mouseList.size();i++)

and get reference of current Object, using

Mouse m = mouseList.get(i);

But I dont know what ure trying to do. This will allow u to modify the array list.
And I dont know what implications this will have on ur algorithm. You need to do some testing for that. Good luck!

[JamesCherrill]

... or, since this is 2011, you can use the enhanced for loop from Java 1.5

A common solution to this problem is to make a copy of the original list and iterate thru that while updating the original.

ArrayList<Mouse> master = .....
ArrayList<Mouse> copy = new ArrayList<Mouse>(master); // copies references from master
for (Mouse m : copy) {
  // access Mouse m, do anything with master
}

[stevanity]

Oh Yeah! Right on James! Forgot the for each loop....

[~s.o.s~]

If you want to modify a `List` while iterating on it, the simplest solution would be to use a list iterator as opposed to a regular iterator. List iterators allow destructive updates on the list while iterating over it.

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
	List<String> lst = new LinkedList<String>(Arrays.asList("a,b,c,d".split(",")));
	for (ListIterator<String> iter = lst.listIterator(); iter.hasNext(); ) {
		if (iter.next().equals("b")) {
			iter.add("OMG_THE_MIDDLE!!11!");
		}
	}
	System.out.println(lst);
}

[JamesCherrill]

There's always something new to learn in the Java API! Thank you for that ~s.o.s~