这是正确的(如果您关心HashSet的开销的话)。

 public static ArrayList<String> removeDuplicates (ArrayList<String> arrayList){
    if (arrayList.isEmpty()) return null;  //return what makes sense for your app
    Collections.sort(arrayList, String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER);
    //remove duplicates
    ArrayList <String> arrayList_mod = new ArrayList<>();
    arrayList_mod.add(arrayList.get(0));
    for (int i=1; i<arrayList.size(); i++){
        if (!arrayList.get(i).equals(arrayList.get(i-1))) arrayList_mod.add(arrayList.get(i));
    }
    return arrayList_mod;
}

还有来自Guava的ImmutableSet作为一个选项(这里是文档):

ImmutableSet.copyOf(list);

填充数组列表时，为每个元素使用一个条件。例如:

    ArrayList< Integer > al = new ArrayList< Integer >(); 

    // fill 1 
    for ( int i = 0; i <= 5; i++ ) 
        if ( !al.contains( i ) ) 
            al.add( i ); 

    // fill 2 
    for (int i = 0; i <= 10; i++ ) 
        if ( !al.contains( i ) ) 
            al.add( i ); 

    for( Integer i: al )
    {
        System.out.print( i + " ");     
    }

我们将得到一个数组{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10}

如果你想从ArrayList中删除重复项意味着找到下面的逻辑，

public static Object[] removeDuplicate(Object[] inputArray)
{
    long startTime = System.nanoTime();
    int totalSize = inputArray.length;
    Object[] resultArray = new Object[totalSize];
    int newSize = 0;
    for(int i=0; i<totalSize; i++)
    {
        Object value = inputArray[i];
        if(value == null)
        {
            continue;
        }

        for(int j=i+1; j<totalSize; j++)
        {
            if(value.equals(inputArray[j]))
            {
                inputArray[j] = null;
            }
        }
        resultArray[newSize++] = value;
    }

    long endTime = System.nanoTime()-startTime;
    System.out.println("Total Time-B:"+endTime);
    return resultArray;
}

这是正确的(如果您关心HashSet的开销的话)。

 public static ArrayList<String> removeDuplicates (ArrayList<String> arrayList){
    if (arrayList.isEmpty()) return null;  //return what makes sense for your app
    Collections.sort(arrayList, String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER);
    //remove duplicates
    ArrayList <String> arrayList_mod = new ArrayList<>();
    arrayList_mod.add(arrayList.get(0));
    for (int i=1; i<arrayList.size(); i++){
        if (!arrayList.get(i).equals(arrayList.get(i-1))) arrayList_mod.add(arrayList.get(i));
    }
    return arrayList_mod;
}

这三行代码可以从ArrayList或任何集合中删除重复的元素。

List<Entity> entities = repository.findByUserId(userId);

Set<Entity> s = new LinkedHashSet<Entity>(entities);
entities.clear();
entities.addAll(s);