How to add selected items from a collection to an ArrayList in Java?

Given a Collection with some values, the task is to add selected the items of this Collection to an ArrayList in Java.

Examples:

Input: Collection = [1, 2, 3], condition = (item != 2)
Output: ArrayList = [1, 3]

Input: Collection = [GFG, Geek, GeeksForGeeks], condition = (item != GFG)
Output: ArrayList = [Geek, GeeksForGeeks]

Approach:

• Get the Collection whose selected items are to be added into the ArrayList
• Create an ArrayList
• Add selected items of Collection into this ArrayList using Stream
• Generate the stream with all the items of the collection using stream() method
• Select the required items from the Stream using filter() method
• Collect the selected items of the stream as an ArrayList using forEachOrdered() method
• ArrayList with selected items of Collections have been created.

Below is the implementation of the above approach:

// Java program to add selected items
// from a collection to an ArrayList

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.stream.*;

class GFG {

    // Function to add selected items
    // from a collection to an ArrayList
    public static <T> ArrayList<T>
    createArrayList(List<T> collection, T N)
    {

        // Create an ArrayList
        ArrayList<T> list = new ArrayList<T>();

        // Add selected items of Collection
        // into this ArrayList
        // Here select items if
        // they are not equal to N
        collection.stream()
            .filter(item -> !item.equals(N))
            .forEachOrdered(list::add);

        return list;
    }

    // Driver code
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {

        List<Integer> collection1
            = Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3);
        System.out.println(
            "ArrayList with selected "
            + "elements of collection "
            + collection1 + ": "
            + createArrayList(collection1, 2));

        List<String> collection2
            = Arrays.asList("GFG",
                            "Geeks",
                            "GeeksForGeeks");
        System.out.println(
            "ArrayList with selected "
            + "elements of collection "
            + collection2 + ": "
            + createArrayList(collection2, "GFG"));
    }
}

Output:

ArrayList with selected elements of collection [1, 2, 3]: [1, 3]
ArrayList with selected elements of collection [GFG, Geeks, GeeksForGeeks]: [Geeks, GeeksForGeeks]