在Java 8中，你可以这样做，将Iterable中的所有元素添加到Collection中并返回:

public static <T> Collection<T> iterableToCollection(Iterable<T> iterable) {
  Collection<T> collection = new ArrayList<>();
  iterable.forEach(collection::add);
  return collection;
}

灵感来自@Afreys的回答。

试试Cactoos的StickyList:

List<String> list = new StickyList<>(iterable);

只要你调用contains, containsAll, equals, hashCode, remove, retainAll, size或toArray，你就必须遍历元素。

如果您偶尔只调用isEmpty或clear等方法，我认为您最好是惰性地创建集合。例如，你可以有一个支持数组列表来存储先前迭代的元素。

我不知道任何一个库中有这样的类，但是编写它应该是一个相当简单的练习。

With Guava you can use Lists.newArrayList(Iterable) or Sets.newHashSet(Iterable), among other similar methods. This will of course copy all the elements in to memory. If that isn't acceptable, I think your code that works with these ought to take Iterable rather than Collection. Guava also happens to provide convenient methods for doing things you can do on a Collection using an Iterable (such as Iterables.isEmpty(Iterable) or Iterables.contains(Iterable, Object)), but the performance implications are more obvious.

如果您可以更新到Spring Data 3，那么这个问题已经解决了。有一个新的界面ListCrudRepository，它做的正是你想要的。

这是来自https://spring.io/blog/2022/02/22/announcing-listcrudrepository-friends-for-spring-data-3-0:的界面

public interface ListCrudRepository<T, ID> extends CrudRepository<T, ID> {
    <S extends T> List<S> saveAll(Iterable<S> entities);
    List<T> findAll();
    List<T> findAllById(Iterable<ID> ids);
}

注意，在版本3中必须实现两个接口

所以在版本2中

public interface PersonRepository<Person, Long> extends 
   PagingAndSortingRepository<Person, Long> {}

在版本3中应改为:

public interface PersonRepository<Person, Long> extends
    PagingAndSortingRepository<Person, Long>,ListCrudRepository<Person, Long> {}

其他变化见https://spring.io/blog/2022/02/22/announcing-listcrudrepository-friends-for-spring-data-3-0

我经常使用fluentiatable .from(myIterable). tolist()。