Is there any generic version of toArray() in Guava or Apache Commons Collections?

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Mihai picture Mihai · Feb 12, 2014 · Viewed 12.2k times · Source

What I'm looking for is a generic version of Object[] java.util.Collection.toArray() or a less verbose alternative to using T[] java.util.Collection.toArray(T[] array). I can currently write:

Collection<String> strings;
String[] array = strings.toArray(new String[strings.size()]);

What I'm looking for is something like:

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public static <T> T[] toArray(Collection<T> collection, Class<T> clazz) {
    return collection.toArray((T[]) Array.newInstance(clazz, collection.size()));
}

which I can then use as:

String[] array = Util.toArray(strings, String.class);

So is anything like this implemented in Guava or in Commons Collections?

Of course I can write my own (the above), which seems to be as fast as toArray(T[] array).

Answer

axtavt picture axtavt · Feb 12, 2014

Iterables.toArray() from Guava.

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