Re: enum question

From:
Mike Amling <mamling@rmcis.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 02 May 2010 14:48:38 -0500
Message-ID:
<8463bvFpi1U1@mid.individual.net>
www wrote:

I have three enums:

enum MyEnum
{
A, B, C, D
}

enum HisEnum
{
A, B, C, D, M, N
}

enum HerEnum
{
A, B, C, D, P
}

A, B, C, and D shows up three times in three enums. I am wondering if
the code can be improved to avoid such repeated coding. Ideally, I would
think MyEnum can be the "parent class" of HisEnum and HerEnum. But enum
cannot sublclass.


   You could get something that looks like what you're looking for with

enum Omnus {
  A, B, M, N, P;
  XYZ whatever() {
   ...
  }
}

class HisEnum {
  static HisEnum A=new HisEnum(Omnus.A);
  static HisEnum B=new HisEnum(Omnus.B);
  static HisEnum M=new HisEnum(Omnus.M);
  static HisEnum N=new HisEnum(Omnus.N);

  private final Omnus mine;
  HisEnum(Omnus which) {
    mine=which;
  }

  XYZ whatever() {
    return mine.whatever();
  }
}

class HerEnum {
  static HisEnum A=new HisEnum(Omnus.A);
  static HisEnum B=new HisEnum(Omnus.B);
  static HisEnum P=new HisEnum(Omnus.P);

  private final Omnus mine;

  HerEnum(Omnus which) {
    mine=which;
  }

  XYZ whatever() {
    return mine.whatever();
  }
}

   This allows you to code HisEnum.N but not HisEnum.P. It allows you to
declare a parameter, variable or return type to be HerEnum that can only
be A, B or P, but not M or N, which I assume is what you want. And
HisEnum.B.whatever() has the same value as HerEnum.B.whatever() and
Omnus.B.whatever().

--Mike Amling

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