在我的应用程序中,我使用第三方库(Spring Data for MongoDB准确地说)。
这个库的方法返回Iterable<T>,而我的其余代码期望Collection<T>。
有没有什么实用的方法可以让我快速地把一个转换成另一个?为了这么简单的事情,我希望避免在代码中创建一堆foreach循环。
在我的应用程序中,我使用第三方库(Spring Data for MongoDB准确地说)。
这个库的方法返回Iterable<T>,而我的其余代码期望Collection<T>。
有没有什么实用的方法可以让我快速地把一个转换成另一个?为了这么简单的事情,我希望避免在代码中创建一堆foreach循环。
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With Guava you can use Lists.newArrayList(Iterable) or Sets.newHashSet(Iterable), among other similar methods. This will of course copy all the elements in to memory. If that isn't acceptable, I think your code that works with these ought to take Iterable rather than Collection. Guava also happens to provide convenient methods for doing things you can do on a Collection using an Iterable (such as Iterables.isEmpty(Iterable) or Iterables.contains(Iterable, Object)), but the performance implications are more obvious.
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There is no need to convert Iterable to Collection to use foreach loop - Iterable may be used in such loop directly, there is no syntactical difference, so I hardly understand why the original question was asked at all. Suggested way to convert Iterable to Collection is unsafe (the same relates to CollectionUtils) - there is no guarantee that subsequent calls to the next() method return different object instances. Moreover, this concern is not pure theoretical. E.g. Iterable implementation used to pass values to a reduce method of Hadoop Reducer always returns the same value instance, just with different field values. So if you apply makeCollection from above (or CollectionUtils.addAll(Iterator)) you will end up with a collection with all identical elements.
来自common -collections的IteratorUtils可能会有所帮助(尽管它们在最新的稳定版本3.2.1中不支持泛型):
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
Collection<Type> list = IteratorUtils.toList(iterable.iterator());
4.0版本(目前在SNAPSHOT中)支持泛型,您可以去掉@SuppressWarnings。
更新:检查IterableAsList从仙人掌。
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。
只要你调用contains, containsAll, equals, hashCode, remove, retainAll, size或toArray,你就必须遍历元素。
如果您偶尔只调用isEmpty或clear等方法,我认为您最好是惰性地创建集合。例如,你可以有一个支持数组列表来存储先前迭代的元素。
我不知道任何一个库中有这样的类,但是编写它应该是一个相当简单的练习。
在Java 8中,你可以这样做,将Iterable中的所有元素添加到Collection中并返回:
public static <T> Collection<T> iterableToCollection(Iterable<T> iterable) {
Collection<T> collection = new ArrayList<>();
iterable.forEach(collection::add);
return collection;
}
灵感来自@Afreys的回答。