我使用我的自定义实用程序强制转换现有的集合(如果可用)。

主要:

public static <T> Collection<T> toCollection(Iterable<T> iterable) {
    if (iterable instanceof Collection) {
        return (Collection<T>) iterable;
    } else {
        return Lists.newArrayList(iterable);
    }
}

理想情况下，上面将使用immutabelist，但ImmutableCollection不允许空值，这可能会产生不希望看到的结果。

测试:

@Test
public void testToCollectionAlreadyCollection() {
    ArrayList<String> list = Lists.newArrayList(FIRST, MIDDLE, LAST);
    assertSame("no need to change, just cast", list, toCollection(list));
}

@Test
public void testIterableToCollection() {
    final ArrayList<String> expected = Lists.newArrayList(FIRST, null, MIDDLE, LAST);

    Collection<String> collection = toCollection(new Iterable<String>() {
        @Override
        public Iterator<String> iterator() {
            return expected.iterator();
        }
    });
    assertNotSame("a new list must have been created", expected, collection);
    assertTrue(expected + " != " + collection, CollectionUtils.isEqualCollection(expected, collection));
}

我为集合的所有子类型(Set,List等)实现了类似的实用程序。我以为这些已经是番石榴的一部分了，但我还没找到。

两个评论

There is no need to convert Iterable to Collection to use foreach loop - Iterable may be used in such loop directly, there is no syntactical difference, so I hardly understand why the original question was asked at all. Suggested way to convert Iterable to Collection is unsafe (the same relates to CollectionUtils) - there is no guarantee that subsequent calls to the next() method return different object instances. Moreover, this concern is not pure theoretical. E.g. Iterable implementation used to pass values to a reduce method of Hadoop Reducer always returns the same value instance, just with different field values. So if you apply makeCollection from above (or CollectionUtils.addAll(Iterator)) you will end up with a collection with all identical elements.

下面是一个在Java 8中实现这一功能的SSCCE

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.IntStream;

public class IterableToCollection {
    public interface CollectionFactory <T, U extends Collection<T>> {
        U createCollection();
    }

    public static <T, U extends Collection<T>> U collect(Iterable<T> iterable, CollectionFactory<T, U> factory) {
        U collection = factory.createCollection();
        iterable.forEach(collection::add);
        return collection;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Iterable<Integer> iterable = IntStream.range(0, 5).boxed().collect(Collectors.toList());
        ArrayList<Integer> arrayList = collect(iterable, ArrayList::new);
        HashSet<Integer> hashSet = collect(iterable, HashSet::new);
        LinkedList<Integer> linkedList = collect(iterable, LinkedList::new);
    }
}

Java 8使用Java .util.stream的简洁解决方案:

public static <T> List<T> toList(final Iterable<T> iterable) {
    return StreamSupport.stream(iterable.spliterator(), false)
                        .collect(Collectors.toList());
}

从Java 16开始，你可以使用Stream.toList():

public static <T> List<T> toList(final Iterable<T> iterable) {
    return StreamSupport.stream(iterable.spliterator(), false)
                        .toList();
}

这不是对你问题的回答，但我相信这是解决你问题的办法。org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository接口确实有返回java.lang.Iterable的方法，但是你不应该使用这个接口。而是使用子接口，在你的例子中是org.springframework.data.mongodb.repository.MongoRepository。该接口具有返回java.util.List类型对象的方法。

尽管如此，不要忘记所有的集合都是有限的，而Iterable没有任何承诺。如果某个东西是Iterable，你可以得到一个Iterator，就是这样。

for (piece : sthIterable){
..........
}

将扩大到:

Iterator it = sthIterable.iterator();
while (it.hasNext()){
    piece = it.next();
..........
}

it.hasNext()不需要返回false。因此，在一般情况下，您不能期望能够将每个Iterable转换为一个集合。例如，你可以遍历所有正自然数，遍历带有循环的东西，反复产生相同的结果，等等。

除此之外:Atrey的回答很好。