Java Utililty Methods Collection Create

Set create(Collection coll)
Creates a set containing all the elements in the collection

return new HashSet<T>(coll);

String createAuthorString(Collection users)
create Author String

Collection<String> alreadySeen = new ArrayList<String>();
String authorLabel = "";
Iterator c = users.iterator();
boolean firstAuthor = true;
while (c.hasNext()) {
 String nextAuthor = (String) c.next();
 if (nextAuthor == null)
 continue;
...

Collection createCollection(final Iterable object)
create Collection

final Collection<T> collection = new ArrayList<T>();
for (final T item : object) {
 collection.add(item);
return collection;

Collection createCollection(Collection col)
Create and answer a collection that is the same type, or the closest equivalent of col.

Collection answer;
try {
 answer = (Collection) col.getClass().newInstance();
} catch (Exception e) {
 if (col instanceof List) {
 answer = new ArrayList();
 } else if (col instanceof SortedSet) {
 answer = new TreeSet();
...

Collection createCollection(Object[] objects)
create Collection

Collection result = createCollection();
for (int i = 0; i < objects.length; i++) {
 result.add(objects[i]);
return result;

Collection createCollection(T... items)
create Collection

Collection<T> collection = new ArrayList<T>(items.length);
for (T item : items) {
 collection.add(item);
return collection;

Collection createCollection(X o)
create Collection

return createList(o);

Collection createCollectionFromString(String value)
create Collection From String

if (value == null) {
 return null;
final StringTokenizer t = new StringTokenizer(value, COLLECTION_SEPARATOR);
final List result = new ArrayList();
while (t.hasMoreTokens()) {
 result.add(t.nextToken());
return result;

String createCSV(Collection list)
create CSV

return createCSV(list, null);

String createCsvString(Collection in)
Create string with comma separated list of values from input collection.

if (in == null)
 return null;
if (in.isEmpty()) {
 return "";
boolean first = true;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (String s : in) {
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