Placing a List in the parameters of another List in java

Sorry if the title is unclear, but I wasn't exactly sure how to describe this in that little amount of words. Okay, so suppose we have this declaration:

ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
//add items to list
Set<String> set = new TreeSet<String>(list);

Now, from what I understand, set will receive the data from list and sort them because that's what TreeSets do. However, on the oracle website, I don't see any constructor in the HashSet class that takes a List as a parameter. So, I don't understand why this works if there is n开发者_运维问答o defined constructor to accept a List as a parameter.

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TreeSet has a constructor that takes a Collection, and List is a Collection (List extends Collection).

Many classes in the Java collections framework follow the same concept. ArrayList, for instance, also has a constructor that takes a Collection. This makes it easy to copy data between collections.

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Take a look at TreeSet(Collection c). This accepts a Collection and ArrayList implements Collection.