[java] cast a List to a Collection

i have some pb. I want to cast a List to Collection in java

Collection<T> collection = new Collection<T>(mylList); 

but i have this error

Can not instantiate the type Collection

First Collection is class Interface and you can not instantiate. Collection API

List Ver APi is also an interface class.

It may be so

List list = Collections.synchronizedList(new ArrayList(...)); 

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Collection collection= Collections.synchronizedList(new ArrayList(...)); 

Not knowing your code, it's a bit hard to answer your question, but based on all the info here, I believe the issue is you're trying to use Collections.sort passing in an object defined as Collection, and sort doesn't support that.

First question. Why is client defined so generically? Why isn't it a List, Map, Set or something a little more specific?

If client was defined as a List, Map or Set, you wouldn't have this issue, as then you'd be able to directly use Collections.sort(client).

HTH

Casting never needs a new:

Collection<T> collection = myList;

You don't even make the cast explicit, because Collection is a super-type of List, so it will work just like this.

There have multiple solusions to convert list to a collection

Solution 1

List<Contact> CONTACTS = new ArrayList<String>();
// fill CONTACTS
Collection<Contact> c = CONTACTS;

Solution 2

private static final Collection<String> c = new ArrayList<String>(
                                                Arrays.asList("a", "b", "c"));

Solution 3

private static final Collection<Contact> = new ArrayList<Contact>(
                       Arrays.asList(new Contact("text1", "name1")
                                     new Contact("text2", "name2")));

Solution 4

List<? extends Contact> col = new ArrayList<Contact>(CONTACTS);