How to get Scala List from Java List?

Question

I have a Java API that returns a List like:

public List getByXPath(String xpathExpr)

I am using the below scala code:

Answer 1

Since scala 2.8.1 use JavaConverters._ to convert scala and Java collections using asScala and asJava methods.

import scala.collection.JavaConverters._

javalist.asScala

scalaSeq.asJava

see the Conversion relationship scala doc site