因为RxJava是一个锤子，而这个看起来像钉子，你可以这样做

Observable.from(iterable).toList().toBlocking().single();

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);
    }
}

在JDK 8+中，不使用任何额外的库:

Iterator<T> source = ...;
List<T> target = new ArrayList<>();
source.forEachRemaining(target::add);

编辑:上面的是迭代器。如果你在处理Iterable，

iterable.forEach(target::add);

我在试图获取项目列表时遇到了类似的情况，而不是在CrudRepository接口中声明的默认Iterable<T> findAll()。因此，在我的ProjectRepository接口(从CrudRepository扩展而来)中，我简单地声明了findAll()方法来返回一个List<Project>而不是Iterable<Project>。

package com.example.projectmanagement.dao;

import com.example.projectmanagement.entities.Project;
import org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;
import java.util.List;

public interface ProjectRepository extends CrudRepository<Project, Long> {

    @Override
    List<Project> findAll();
}

我认为这是最简单的解决方案，不需要转换逻辑或使用外部库。

当你从Spring Data中获得你的Iterable时，你有两个额外的选择。

You can override the method that returns the Iterable in the repository with a version that returns a List, Set or Streamable. This way Spring Data is doing the conversion for you. You may do so in a super interface of your repositories so you don't have to repeat the override in all your repository interfaces. If you happen to use Spring Data JPA this is already done for you in JpaRepository You may do the conversion using the just mentioned Streamable yourself: Iterable<X> iterable = repo.findAll(); List<X> list = Streamable.of(iterable).toList();

既然你提到了沮丧，也许还有一些决定使用Iterable帮助的背景。

It is expected that it is actually fairly rare to actually require a Collection so in many cases it shouldn't make a difference. Using the overriding mechanics one can return different types which wouldn't be possible with a more specific return type like Collection. This would make it impossible to return a Streamable which is intended for cases where a store may decide to return a result before all elements have been fetched. Streamable would actually be a flexible return type, since it offers easy conversions to List, Set, Stream and is itself an Iterable. But this would require you to use a Spring Data specific type in your application which many users wouldn't like.

在参考文档中有关于这方面的章节。

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。