Here you can find the source of convertArrayToList(Object value)
private static List convertArrayToList(Object value)
//package com.java2s; /*/* ww w . j a v a2 s . c o m*/ * SonarQube, open source software quality management tool. * Copyright (C) 2008-2014 SonarSource * mailto:contact AT sonarsource DOT com * * SonarQube is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * SonarQube is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, * Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.List; public class Main { private static List convertArrayToList(Object value) { // is there seriously no better way to do this...bah! List list = new ArrayList(); if (value instanceof int[]) { int[] arr = (int[]) value; for (int ix = 0; ix < arr.length; ix++) { list.add(arr[ix]); } } else if (value instanceof double[]) { double[] arr = (double[]) value; for (int ix = 0; ix < arr.length; ix++) { list.add(arr[ix]); } } else if (value instanceof float[]) { float[] arr = (float[]) value; for (int ix = 0; ix < arr.length; ix++) { list.add(arr[ix]); } } else if (value instanceof long[]) { long[] arr = (long[]) value; for (int ix = 0; ix < arr.length; ix++) { list.add(arr[ix]); } } else if (value instanceof boolean[]) { boolean[] arr = (boolean[]) value; for (int ix = 0; ix < arr.length; ix++) { list.add(arr[ix]); } } else { list = Arrays.asList((Object[]) value); } return list; } }