Insert element to ArrayList with ascending order and no duplicate elements

Question

I have a homework assignment where I need to insert or add new elemment into ArrayList<Interger> with follow condition:

1. Element must ascending order.

2. No duplicate elements in ArrayList<Integer>

3. insert method run in O(n) times.

Here is my insert method for check duplicate element before add new element.

    public void insert(int x){
            //effect: Check duplicate elements if not x to the elements;
                boolean found = false;
                if(super.size()!=0){
                    for(int i=0; i<super.size(); i++){
                        if(super.get(i)==x){
                            found = true;
                        }
                    }
                }
                if(found){ return; }
                else{ super.add(x);  }
        }

how can i do it? Thank you.

addition

here is my class names InSetExtra

public class IntSetExtra extends ArrayList<Integer> {


    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    public IntSetExtra(){
        super();
    }

    public void insert(int x){
        //effect: Check duplicate elements if not x to the elements;
            boolean found = false;
            if(super.size()!=0){
                for(int i=0; i<super.size(); i++){
                    if(super.get(i)==x){
                        found = true;
                    }
                }
            }
            if(found){ return; }
            else{ super.add(x);  }
    }

    public String toString(){
        //effect: return string of this.
        if(super.size()==0) return "[]";
        String s = "[" + super.get(0).toString();
        for(int i=1; i<super.size(); i++){
            s += ", " + super.get(i).toString();
        }
        return s += "]";
    }

}

and i need to insert a large size of elements, for example:

IntSetExtra a, b;

    a = new IntSetExtra();
    b = new IntSetExtra();

    for(int i=0; i<30000; i++){ a.insert(2*i); }
    for(int i=0; i<30000; i++){ a.insert(i); }

    System.out.println("a sub = "+a.toString().substring(0, 37));

what should i do?

ps. my instructor need to use only ArrayList

Answer 1

Here is an insert method in O(n).

public void insert(int x) {
    int pos = Collections.binarySearch(this, x);
    if (pos < 0) {
        add(-pos-1, x);
    }
}