[COLLECTIONS-711] Add Utility to Convert Collection to List

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Collection, List
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David Mollitor
• Created: 03/Feb/19 15:41
• Updated: 17/Sep/20 05:20

Description

Please take a look at:

 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/580160/how-to-convert-a-collection-to-list

 

Add a utility method to convert a Collection to a List, returning the argument if it is a List subclass itself. Make the return type Unmodified for consistency.since if the data comes in as a non-List class, then a copy is made, so modifying the returned collection would not affect the original source, whereas if a List is passed in, modification to the returned List would impact the original source.