Name: rmT116609			Date: 02/11/2004


FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
java version "1.5.0-beta"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0-beta-b32c)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0-beta-b32c, mixed mode)

ADDITIONAL OS VERSION INFORMATION :
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
JDK 1.5 introduces the concept of autoboxing, of automatically converting between primitives and Objects.

As such, passing an int[] into Arrays.asList(Object[]) should automatically convert it into an Integer[], thus allowing the resulting list to be a List<Integer>.


STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
Compile the attached source with "-source 1.5" and any one of the three included examples uncommented.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
I expect to, at the very minimum, have the int[] autoboxed into Integer[] as this is one of the new improvements for JDK 1.5

Preferably, I would also like to have the return results be a List<Integer> as per the Generics changes in 1.5

Please note that someone else requested the same functionality in JDK 1.3 as per Bug #4348595, but it was not to be implemented because it required Autoboxing, which JDK 1.5 is now supposed to have.
ACTUAL -
Error messages included as comments in the attached source

ERROR MESSAGES/STACK TRACES THAT OCCUR :
Error messages included as comments in the attached source

REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
import java.util.*;

public class arrayTest
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		int[] array = new int[]{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9};
		
		
		/**
		 * E:\java\examples>javac -source 1.5 arrayTest.java
		 * arrayTest.java:19: <T>asList(T[]) in java.util.Arrays cannot be applied to (int[
		 * ]); inferred type argument(s) int do not conform to bounds of type variable(s) T
		 *                 List list = Arrays.asList(array);
		 *                 ArrayList<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>(array);
		 *                                   ^
		 * 1 error
		 */
		//List list = Arrays.asList(array);
		
		/**
		 * E:\java\examples>javac -source 1.5 arrayTest.java
		 * arrayTest.java:30: cannot find symbol
		 * symbol  : constructor ArrayList(int[])
		 * location: class java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.Integer>
		 *                 ArrayList<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>(array);
		 *                                           ^
		 * 1 error
		 */
		//ArrayList<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>(array);
		
		/**
		 * E:\java\examples>javac -source 1.5 arrayTest.java
		 * arrayTest.java:42: cannot find symbol
		 * symbol  : method addAll(int[])
		 * location: class java.util.ArrayList<java.lang.Integer>
		 *                 list.addAll(array);
		 *                     ^
		 * 1 error
		 */
		//ArrayList<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>();
		//list.addAll(array);
	}
}
---------- END SOURCE ----------

CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
Manually iterate through every integer in the array, instead of a 1-line autobox/generics-solution. IE: It is possible to do it by hand by NOT using any new features of JDK 1.5, but looses the nice new code cleanliness that 1.5 introduces.
(Incident Review ID: 237968) 
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