Implementations of the Collection interface normally have a constructor that accepts a Collection object.
This enables you to convert a Collection to a different type of Collection, such as a Queue to a List, or a List to a Set, etc. Here are the constructors of some implementations:
public ArrayList (Collection c)
public HashSet (Collection c)
public LinkedList (Collection c)
As an example, the following code converts a Queue to a List.
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Queue;
public class MainClass {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Queue queue = new LinkedList();
queue.add("Hello");
queue.add("World");
List list = new ArrayList(queue);
System.out.println(list);
}
}
[Hello, World]
And this converts a List to a Set.
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
public class MainClass {
public static void main(String[] args) {
List myList = new ArrayList();
myList.add("Hello");
myList.add("World");
Set set = new HashSet(myList);
System.out.println(set);
}
}
[World, Hello]