Convert Enumeration to a Set/List

Is there some one-liner bridge method to dump a given Enumeration to java.util.List or java.util.Set?

Something built-in like Arrays.asList() or Collection.toArray() should exist somewhere, but I'm unable to find that in my IntelliJ debugger's evaluator window (and Google/SO results, too).

You can use Collections.list() to convert an Enumeration to a List in one line:

List<T> list = Collections.list(enumeration);

There's no similar method to get a Set, however you can still do it one line:

Set<T> set = new HashSet<T>(Collections.list(enumeration));

How about this: Collections.list(Enumeration e) returns an ArrayList<T>

If you need Set rather than List, you can use EnumSet.allOf().

Set<EnumerationClass> set = EnumSet.allOf(EnumerationClass.class);

Update: JakeRobb is right. My answer is about java.lang.Enum instead of java.util.Enumeration. Sorry for unrelated answer.

There is a simple example of convert enumeration to list. for this i used Collections.list(enum) method.

public class EnumerationToList {
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Vector<String> vt = new Vector<String>();
        vt.add("java");
        vt.add("php");
        vt.add("array");
        vt.add("string");
        vt.add("c");

        Enumeration<String> enm = vt.elements();
        List<String> ll = Collections.list(enm);
        System.out.println("List elements: " + ll);
    }

}

Reference : How to convert enumeration to list

When using guava (See doc) there is Iterators.forEnumeration. Given an Enumeration x you can do the following:

to get a immutable Set:

ImmutableSet.copyOf(Iterators.forEnumeration(x));

to get a immutable List:

ImmutableList.copyOf(Iterators.forEnumeration(x));

to get a hashSet:

Sets.newHashSet(Iterators.forEnumeration(x));

There's also in Apache commons-collections EnumerationUtils.toList(enumeration)

I needed same thing and this solution work fine, hope it can help someone also

Enumeration[] array = Enumeration.values();
List<Enumeration> list = Arrays.asList(array);

then you can get the .name() of your enumeration.