Convert Java List to Scala Seq

JavaConverters is what I needed to solve this.

import scala.collection.JavaConverters;

public Seq<String> convertListToSeq(List<String> inputList) {
    return JavaConverters.asScalaIteratorConverter(inputList.iterator()).asScala().toSeq();
}

This worked for me! (Java 8, Spark 2.0.0)

import java.util.ArrayList;

import scala.collection.JavaConverters;
import scala.collection.Seq;

public class Java2Scala
{

    public Seq<String> getSeqString(ArrayList<String> list)
        {
            return JavaConverters.asScalaIterableConverter(list).asScala().toSeq();
        }

}

JavaConversions should work. I think, you are looking for something like this: JavaConversions.asScalaBuffer(a).toSeq()

Starting Scala 2.13, package scala.jdk.javaapi.CollectionConverters replaces deprecated packages scala.collection.JavaConverters/JavaConversions:

import scala.jdk.javaapi.CollectionConverters;

// List<String> javaList = Arrays.asList("a", "b");
CollectionConverters.asScala(javaList).toSeq();
// Seq[String] = List(a, b)