passing an Array to a Varargs method...

[Philippe Desrosiers]

Yep, I've read this, but I can't tell if I'm having the same problem, or the opposite problem.

Basically, I'm trying to call a method with a varargs argument, but the parameters I want to pass are already in an array. I want to represent each item in the array as a seperate parameter to the method call.
example:

public static void foo(String name, Object... params){

//Do something
}

public static void main(String[] args){
     Integer[] params = {1,2,3,4,5};
     foo("MyFunction",params);
}

Problem is, the "foo" method is seeing the incoming arguments as a single argument of type Integer[], when I want it to see them as seperate arguments of type Integer.

Is there a way to do this, without knowing how many parameters will be passed?

[Philippe Desrosiers]

Nevermind. Figured it out.

For anyone who has this same problem: You're doing something wrong. One of the goals of varargs is specifically to support this kind of thing.

In my case, I was incorrectly converting an ArrayList to an Array (or something).

[Rob Spoor]

Varargs always give problems with Object and subclasses. An Integer[] is both an Object[] and an Object. In these cases, it's always wise to cast to either Object[] (if you want the elements to be the actual varargs arguments) or to Object (if you want the array to be one single varargs argument).