Passing an array to a variable that has a different type in Java

I have a class InQueue with the following:

static Queue<String> q = null;

public InQueue(String[] input){
    q = new LinkedList<String>();

}
public static Queue<String> newInputQueue(String[] inputArray){
    q.addAll(Arrays.asList(inputArray));
    q.add("$");
    return q;
}

And I have an array in main that I’m trying to do this:

String[] inputArr = {"id", "+", "id", "*", "id"};
InQueue inQueue = new InQueue(inputArr);

I want to pass inputArr to inQueue so that my array goes into the queue. But obviously I can’t do that because the InQueue constructor doesn’t have parameters. Is there a way to do this? I’ve tried various ways and most of them either don’t work, or they return an empty queue.

>Solution :

You can simply create that constructor yourself:

public InQueue(String[] arr){
    q = new LinkedList<String>(Arrays.asList(arr));
}

You should also remove the static keyword from both the field q as well as the newInputQueue method, is there a reason for it?