Easy way to convert Iterable to Collection

Question

In my application I use 3rd party library (Spring Data for MongoDB to be exact).

Methods of this library return Iterable, while the rest of my

Answer 1

You may write your own utility method for this as well:

public static  Collection makeCollection(Iterable iter) {
    Collection list = new ArrayList();
    for (E item : iter) {
        list.add(item);
    }
    return list;
}