Scala: Converting a scala collection to java.util.List
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Join For FreeI’ve been playing around a little with Goose – a library for extracting the main body of text from web pages – and I thought I’d try converting some of the code to be more scala-esque in style.
The API of the various classes/methods is designed so it’s interoperable with Java code but in order to use functions like map/filter we need the collection to be a Scala one.
That’s achieved by importing ‘scala.collections.JavaConversions._’ which will apply an implicit conversion to convert the Java collection into a Scala one.
I needed to go back to the Java one again which can be achieved with the following code:
import scala.collection.JavaConversions._ val javaCollection = seqAsJavaList(Seq("abc"))
I also used that function in the StopWords.scala object in Goose.
There are a load of other functions available in JavaConversions as well for going to a Dictionary, Map, Set and so on.
From http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2012/02/05/scala-converting-a-scala-collection-to-java-util-list/
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