How to remove a weakReference from a list?

Question

I've got a list of weakReferences to objects in java. How do i write a method that gets the real object instance and removes it's weak reference from this list?

thanks.

Answer 1

It's not entirely clear what you mean, but I think you may want:

public static <T> void removeReference(List<WeakReference<T>> list,
                                       T reference)
{
    for (Iterator<WeakReference<T>> iterator = list.iterator();
         iterator.hasNext(); )
    {
        WeakReference<T> weakRef = iterator.next();
        if (weakRef.get() == reference)
        {
            iterator.remove();
        }
    }
}