Re: Swing is dead! Long live Swing.

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:23 -0800
Message-ID:
<jikluo$ed5$1@news.albasani.net>
Wanja Gayk wrote:

markspace wrote:

... For situations where I might be tempted to just use strings,
I try to substitute enums. For example, instead of

   bind( someComponent, "event-name" );

I'd use this:

   bind( someComponent, Events.NAME );

It provides automatic syntax checking, and is much easier to refactor if
names need to be changed or moved around later.

Any thoughts on this idea?


I think the same way.
I'm even going further and strongly propose preferring Enums to boolean
parameters and this is why:
http://brixomatic.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/boolean-harmful/


+1

This might irritate those who already find Java verbose, since 'String's are
more compact to declare, but type safety and refactorability [sic] is a payoff
in many situations.

I'm even worse, because I pump a "friendly" string representation into the enum.
<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Enum.html#toString()>
??An enum type should override this method when a more "programmer-friendly"
string form exists.??

Necessitating a corresponding 'public static E fromString(String rep)'.

'fromString()' compares 'toString()' strings first; if those fail it delegates
to 'valueOf()'.

<sscce source="eegee/Essential.java">
package eegee;
/**
  * Essential {@code enum} implementation with "friendly" representation.
  */
public enum Essential
{
   FOO("foo"),
   BAR("bar"),
   FANCY("fancy form"),
   ANOMALY("useful to hold log or error messages"),
   ;
   private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

   private final String representation;

   /**
     * Constructor setting the friendly representation.
     * @param rep String friendly representation of constant.
     */
   private Essential(String rep)
   {
     this.representation = rep;
     assert this.representation != null;
   }

   @Override
   public final String toString()
   {
     return representation;
   }

   /**
     * Look up enum constant from String representation.
     * @param rep String representation of enum constant.
     * @return Essential constant matching the representation.
     */
   public static Essential fromString(String rep)
   {
     if (rep == null)
     {
       return null;
     }
     for (Essential value : values())
     {
       if (rep.equals(value.toString()))
       {
         return value;
       }
     }
     return valueOf(rep);
   }
}
</sscce>

--
Lew
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