Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. */ import java.lang.reflect.Array; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Collections; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.List; public class Main { /** * General purpose list converter method. Will convert arrays, collections, * iterables etc. into lists. * * If the argument is a single object (such as a String or a POJO) it will * be wrapped in a single-element list. * * Null will be converted to the empty list. * * @param obj * any object * @return a list representation of the object */ public static List<?> toList(Object obj) { final List<Object> result; if (obj == null) { result = Collections.emptyList(); } else if (obj instanceof List) { @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") List<Object> list = (List<Object>) obj; result = list; } else if (obj.getClass().isArray()) { int length = Array.getLength(obj); result = new ArrayList<Object>(length); for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) { result.add(Array.get(obj, i)); } } else if (obj instanceof Iterable) { result = new ArrayList<Object>(); for (Object item : (Iterable<?>) obj) { result.add(item); } } else if (obj instanceof Iterator) { result = new ArrayList<Object>(); Iterator<?> it = (Iterator<?>) obj; while (it.hasNext()) { result.add(it.next()); } } else { result = new ArrayList<Object>(1); result.add(obj); } return result; } }