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

Concise solution with Java 8 using java.util.stream:

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