public static List asList()

in velocity-tools-generic/src/main/java/org/apache/velocity/tools/ConversionUtils.java [853:877]


    public static List asList(Object value)
    {
        if (value instanceof List) return (List)value;
        else if (value.getClass().isArray())
        {
            Class componentClass = value.getClass().getComponentType();
            if (componentClass.isPrimitive())
            {
                if (componentClass.equals(char.class)) value = ArrayUtils.toObject((char[])value);
                else if (componentClass.equals(long.class)) value = ArrayUtils.toObject((long[])value);
                else if (componentClass.equals(int.class)) value = ArrayUtils.toObject((int[])value);
                else if (componentClass.equals(short.class)) value = ArrayUtils.toObject((short[])value);
                else if (componentClass.equals(byte.class)) value = ArrayUtils.toObject((byte[])value);
                else if (componentClass.equals(double.class)) value = ArrayUtils.toObject((double[])value);
                else if (componentClass.equals(float.class)) value = ArrayUtils.toObject((float[])value);
            }
            return new ArrayList(Arrays.asList((Object[])value));
        }
        else
        {
            List ret = new ArrayList();
            ret.add(value);
            return ret;
        }
    }