在Java 1.8中，流API可用于将列表转换为集合。例如，下面的代码显示了一个列表到一个集合的转换:

List<String> empList = Arrays.asList("java", "python", ".net", "javaScript", "php");
Set<String> set = empList.stream().collect(Collectors.toSet());
set.forEach(value -> System.out.printf("%s ", value));

如果列表包含对象，我想创建一个集合:

List<Employee> empList = Arrays.asList(new Employee(1, 1000, "Chandra Shekhar", 6000),
new Employee(2, 1000, "Rajesh", 8000), new Employee(3, 1004, "Rahul", 9000),
new Employee(4, 1001, "Suresh", 12000), new Employee(5, 1004, "Satosh", 7000));

Set<String> set = empList.stream().map(emp -> emp.getName()).collect(Collectors.toSet());
System.out.println(set);        

如果你使用Guava库:

Set<Foo> set = Sets.newHashSet(list);

或者,更好:

Set<Foo> set = ImmutableSet.copyOf(list);

Set<E> alphaSet  = new HashSet<E>(<your List>);

或者完整的例子

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

public class ListToSet
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        List<String> alphaList = new ArrayList<String>();
        alphaList.add("A");
        alphaList.add("B");
        alphaList.add("C");
        alphaList.add("A");
        alphaList.add("B");
        System.out.println("List values .....");
        for (String alpha : alphaList)
        {
            System.out.println(alpha);
        }
        Set<String> alphaSet = new HashSet<String>(alphaList);
        System.out.println("\nSet values .....");
        for (String alpha : alphaSet)
        {
            System.out.println(alpha);
        }
    }
}

可以将List<>转换为Set<>

Set<T> set=new HashSet<T>();

//Added dependency -> If list is null then it will throw NullPointerExcetion.

Set<T> set;
if(list != null){
    set = new HashSet<T>(list);
}

不要忘记我们相对较新的朋友，java-8流API。 如果你需要在将列表转换为集合之前对其进行预处理，最好是这样:

list.stream().<here goes some preprocessing>.collect(Collectors.toSet());

使用java 8你可以使用stream:

List<Integer> mylist = Arrays.asList(100, 101, 102);
Set<Integer> myset = mylist.stream().collect(Collectors.toSet()));