Ever have one of those objects that want to give you an iterator and don’t have a method for getting it as a list? Well created another new method for my ListUtils class. ListUtils::iteratre() it takes an iterator and converts it into a List for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Ever have one of those objects that want to give you an iterator and don’t have a method for getting it as a list? Well created another new method for my ListUtils class. 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