How to get a reversed list view on a list in Java?

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I want to have a reversed list view on a list (in a similar way than List#sublist provides a sublist view on a list). Is there some function which provides this functionality?

I don't want to make any sort of copy of the list nor modify the list.

It would be enough if I could get at least a reverse iterator on a list in this case though.

Also, I know how to implement this myself. I'm just asking if Java already provides something like this.

Demo implementation:

static <T> Iterable<T> iterableReverseList(final List<T> l) {
    return new Iterable<T>() {
        public Iterator<T> iterator() {
            return new Iterator<T>() {
                ListIterator<T> listIter = l.listIterator(l.size());                    
                public boolean hasNext() { return listIter.hasPrevious(); }
                public T next() { return listIter.previous(); }
                public void remove() { listIter.remove(); }                 
            };
        }
    };
}

I just have found out that some List implementations have descendingIterator() which is what I need. Though there is no general such implementation for List. Which is kind of strange because the implementation I have seen in LinkedList is general enough to work with any List.

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11 Answers

For small sized list we can create LinkedList and then can make use of descending iterator as:

List<String> stringList = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList("One", "Two", "Three"));
stringList.stream().collect(Collectors.toCollection(LinkedList::new))
         .descendingIterator().
         forEachRemaining(System.out::println); // Three, Two, One
System.out.println(stringList); // One, Two, Three
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