Arrays.asList()无法增删的原因

通过Arrays.alist()的实现源码可以知道，Arrays.asList()方法的返回值并不是ArrayList这个对象，而是在Arrays类中和ArrayList同名的一个内部类，又因为这个内部类继承了AbstractList并且实现了List<T>这个接口，所以其整个过程相当于实对List这个接口对象的实例化，只不过内部类没有覆盖父类中的add和remove方法，并且内部类中是一个数组，所以asList()方法返回的是一个固定长度的List。

 

@SafeVarargs
@SuppressWarnings("varargs")
public static <T> List<T> asList(T... a) {
    return new ArrayList<>(a);
}

 

private static class ArrayList<E> extends AbstractList<E>
    implements RandomAccess, java.io.Serializable
{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -2764017481108945198L;
    private final E[] a;

    ArrayList(E[] array) {
        a = Objects.requireNonNull(array);
    }

    @Override
    public int size() {
        return a.length;
    }

    @Override
    public Object[] toArray() {
        return a.clone();
    }

    @Override
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public <T> T[] toArray(T[] a) {
        int size = size();
        if (a.length < size)
            return Arrays.copyOf(this.a, size,
                                 (Class<? extends T[]>) a.getClass());
        System.arraycopy(this.a, 0, a, 0, size);
        if (a.length > size)
            a[size] = null;
        return a;
    }

    @Override
    public E get(int index) {
        return a[index];
    }

    @Override
    public E set(int index, E element) {
        E oldValue = a[index];
        a[index] = element;
        return oldValue;
    }

    @Override
    public int indexOf(Object o) {
        E[] a = this.a;
        if (o == null) {
            for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++)
                if (a[i] == null)
                    return i;
        } else {
            for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++)
                if (o.equals(a[i]))
                    return i;
        }
        return -1;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean contains(Object o) {
        return indexOf(o) != -1;
    }

    @Override
    public Spliterator<E> spliterator() {
        return Spliterators.spliterator(a, Spliterator.ORDERED);
    }

    @Override
    public void forEach(Consumer<? super E> action) {
        Objects.requireNonNull(action);
        for (E e : a) {
            action.accept(e);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void replaceAll(UnaryOperator<E> operator) {
        Objects.requireNonNull(operator);
        E[] a = this.a;
        for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
            a[i] = operator.apply(a[i]);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void sort(Comparator<? super E> c) {
        Arrays.sort(a, c);
    }
}

 

public abstract class AbstractList<E> extends AbstractCollection<E> implements List<E>