Re: [Switch()...case]From String to enum

From:

Sabine Dinis Blochberger <no.spam@here.invalid>

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comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:43:42 GMT

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Roedy Green wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:45:36 +0100, Daniel Moyne <dmoyne@tiscali.fr>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

What you mean by override valueOf() : create a new method of this name in
class myMenuEnum that would provide what I expect ; I will try to work out
this idea.

it is a static, so you can't literally override it. You might as well
give it a slightly different name to make it clear what you are doing
e.g. valueOfAlias( ).

Ah, corrected I am, thanks ;) To appease the Usenet gods, I shall post
an abbreviated example of how I implemented an enum. It also uses
ResourceBundels to get display values in the current locale.

/**
* Enum class for support types in this application.
* @author Sabine Dinis Blochberger
*/
public enum SupportTypes {
    COMMERCIAL ("comercial", "ds_commercial"),
    TECHNICAL ("tecnico", "ds_technical"),
    NONE ("nenhum", "ds_none");

    private final String supportName;
    private final String displayName;

    SupportTypes(String supportName, String displayName) {
        this.supportName = supportName;
        this.displayName = displayName;
    }

    public String supportName() { return supportName; }
    public String displayName() {
        return java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(
            "resources/displayStrings").getString(
            this.displayName);
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() { return supportName; }

    /** Returns the enum corresponding to a name.
     * @param name support type name
     * @return support type enum */
    public static SupportTypes supportTypeOf(final String name) {
        if (name == null || name.isEmpty()) return NONE;

        try {
            if (name.equalsIgnoreCase(COMERCIAL.displayName()) ||
                    name.equalsIgnoreCase(COMERCIAL.supportName))
                return COMERCIAL;
            if (name.equalsIgnoreCase(TECNICAL.displayName()) ||
                    name.equalsIgnoreCase(TECNICAL.supportName))
                return TECNICAL;
            if (name.equalsIgnoreCase(NONE.displayName()) ||
                    name.equalsIgnoreCase(NONE.supportName))
                return NONE;

            return valueOf(name); // last try
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            return NONE; // default value
        }
    }
};

The intersting bit to the OP is the method supportTypeOf().

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