Java Collection Tutorial - Java Collections .unmodifiableList ( List <? extends T> list)

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Syntax

Collections.unmodifiableList(List <? extends T> list) has the following syntax.

public static <T> List <T> unmodifiableList(List <? extends T> list)

Example

In the following code shows how to use Collections.unmodifiableList(List <? extends T> list) method.

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
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public class Main {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      // create array list
      List<Character>  list = new ArrayList<Character> ();
      
      // populate the list
      list.add('X');
      list.add('Y');
      
      System.out.println("Initial list: "+ list);
      
      // make the list unmodifiable
      List<Character>  immutablelist = Collections.unmodifiableList(list);
      
      // try to modify the list
      immutablelist.add('Z');      
   }
}

The code above generates the following result.

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