Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * This file is part of McIDAS-V * * Copyright 2007-2015 * Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) * University of Wisconsin - Madison * 1225 W. Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA * http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas * * All Rights Reserved * * McIDAS-V is built on Unidata's IDV and SSEC's VisAD libraries, and * some McIDAS-V source code is based on IDV and VisAD source code. * * McIDAS-V is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * McIDAS-V is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU Lesser Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser Public License * along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses. */ import java.util.Collection; public class Main { /** * Copies an existing {@link Collection} into a new (non-abstract!) * {@code Collection} class. * * @param cl Non-abstract {@code Collection} class. * @param old An existing {@code Collection}. * * @return A new instance of {@code cl} that contains all of the elements * from {@code old}. * * @throws RuntimeException if there was trouble creating a new instance * of {@code cl}. * * @see #collect(Class, Object...) */ // not sure about the utility of this one... @SuppressWarnings({ "unchecked", "rawtypes" }) // again, only adding items of type "E" public static <E> Collection<E> recollect(Class<? extends Collection> cl, Collection<E> old) { try { Collection<E> c = cl.getConstructor().newInstance(); c.addAll(old); return c; } catch (Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException("", e); } } }