Converting String to "Character" array in Java

I want to convert a String to an array of objects of Character class but I am unable to perform the conversion. I know that I can convert a String to an array of primitive datatype type "char" with the toCharArray() method but it doesn't help in converting a String to an array of objects of Character type.

How would I go about doing so?

Use this:

String str = "testString";
char[] charArray = str.toCharArray();
Character[] charObjectArray = ArrayUtils.toObject(charArray);

One liner with java-8:

String str = "testString";

//[t, e, s, t, S, t, r, i, n, g]
Character[] charObjectArray = 
    str.chars().mapToObj(c -> (char)c).toArray(Character[]::new);

What it does is:

get an IntStream of the characters (you may want to also look at codePoints())
map each 'character' value to Character (you need to cast to actually say that its really a char, and then Java will box it automatically to Character)
get the resulting array by calling toArray()

Why not write a little method yourself

public Character[] toCharacterArray( String s ) {

   if ( s == null ) {
     return null;
   }

   int len = s.length();
   Character[] array = new Character[len];
   for (int i = 0; i < len ; i++) {
      /* 
      Character(char) is deprecated since Java SE 9 & JDK 9
      Link: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/lang/Character.html
      array[i] = new Character(s.charAt(i));
      */
      array[i] = s.charAt(i);
   }

   return array;
}

Converting String to Character Array and then Converting Character array back to String

   //Givent String
   String given = "asdcbsdcagfsdbgdfanfghbsfdab";

   //Converting String to Character Array(It's an inbuild method of a String)
   char[] characterArray = given.toCharArray();
   //returns = [a, s, d, c, b, s, d, c, a, g, f, s, d, b, g, d, f, a, n, f, g, h, b, s, f, d, a, b]

//ONE WAY : Converting back Character array to String

  int length = Arrays.toString(characterArray).replaceAll("[, ]","").length();

  //First Way to get the string back
  Arrays.toString(characterArray).replaceAll("[, ]","").substring(1,length-1)
  //returns asdcbsdcagfsdbgdfanfghbsfdab
  or 
  // Second way to get the string back
  Arrays.toString(characterArray).replaceAll("[, ]","").replace("[","").replace("]",""))
 //returns asdcbsdcagfsdbgdfanfghbsfdab

//Second WAY : Converting back Character array to String

String.valueOf(characterArray);

//Third WAY : Converting back Character array to String

Arrays.stream(characterArray)
           .mapToObj(i -> (char)i)
           .collect(Collectors.joining());

Converting string to Character Array

Character[] charObjectArray =
                           givenString.chars().
                               mapToObj(c -> (char)c).
                               toArray(Character[]::new);

Converting char array to Character Array

 String givenString = "MyNameIsArpan";
char[] givenchararray = givenString.toCharArray();


     String.valueOf(givenchararray).chars().mapToObj(c -> 
                         (char)c).toArray(Character[]::new);

benefits of Converting char Array to Character Array you can use the Arrays.stream funtion to get the sub array

String subStringFromCharacterArray = 

              Arrays.stream(charObjectArray,2,6).
                          map(String::valueOf).
                          collect(Collectors.joining());

Converting String to "Character" array in Java

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