Java中List调用remove时报UnsupportedOperationException的原因及解决方法

List在修改时报java.util.ConcurrentModificationException的原因和解决方法已经很常见了，一般面试时也会问到，可以参考这篇文章：http://www.cnblogs.com/liuling/p/2013-8-21-04.html，但是今天遇到了另一种异常UnsupportedOperationException，代码如下：

public static void main(String[] args) {
        List<Integer> list = Arrays.asList(1,2,3,4,5);
        Iterator<Integer> iterator = list.iterator();
        while(iterator.hasNext()){
            Integer integer = iterator.next();
            if(integer % 2 == 0){
                iterator.remove();
            }
        }
        for(Integer i : list){
            System.out.println(i);
        }
}

看样子是返回的list不支持修改的操作，根据调试结果，实际上程序是运行到了 AbstractList<E>中的remove方法中，而可以看到源码中该类下边的几个修改（新增、删除等）方法都是抛出 UnsupportedOperationException的，代码如下：

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     *
     * <p>This implementation always throws an
     * {@code UnsupportedOperationException}.
     *
     * @throws UnsupportedOperationException {@inheritDoc}
     * @throws ClassCastException            {@inheritDoc}
     * @throws NullPointerException          {@inheritDoc}
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException      {@inheritDoc}
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException     {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public void add(int index, E element) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     *
     * <p>This implementation always throws an
     * {@code UnsupportedOperationException}.
     *
     * @throws UnsupportedOperationException {@inheritDoc}
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException     {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public E remove(int index) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

这是为什么呢？因为我习惯性以为Arrays.asList返回的是一个java.util.ArrayList但实际上并不是，一下是源码：

public static <T> List<T> asList(T... a) {
        return new ArrayList<>(a);
    }

    /**
     * @serial include
     */
    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);
        }
    }

可以看到返回的实际上是一个静态内部类ArrayList<E>，而该类虽然继承了AbstractList，但是并没有Override抽象类中关于新增、删除的方法，因此才会抛出UnsupportedOperationException异常。

解决方法很简单，把返回的List包装一下就行：

List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>(Arrays.asList(1,2,3,4,5));

参考：http://blog.csdn.net/liuzhigang1237/article/details/7197074