Method sortedCopy

corpus/java/training/guava/collect/Ordering.java:867–873

Returns a mutable list containing elements sorted by this ordering; use this only when the resulting list may need further modification, or may contain null. The input is not modified. The returned list is serializable and has random access. Unlike {@link Sets#newTreeSet(I

(Iterable<E> elements)

   * Collections#sort(List)}.
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue // TODO(kak): Consider removing this
  public <E extends T> List<E> sortedCopy(Iterable<E> elements) {
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // does not escape, and contains only E's
    E[] array = (E[]) Iterables.toArray(elements);
    Arrays.sort(array, this);
    return Lists.newArrayList(Arrays.asList(array));
  }

  /**
   * Returns an <b>immutable</b> list containing {@code elements} sorted by this