[jboss-dev-forums] [Design the new POJO MicroContainer] - Re: enums, generics and other animals

[adrian@jboss.org]

"alesj" wrote : Another refactoring question. :-)
  | Since for xml handling I still need to get the right enum by matching the underlying strings.
  | The thing is that on enums there is already a valueOf method which does similar thing, matching enum's name with input string parameter.
  | But in our case the names do not match exactly the underlying strings, resulting in needing something like getInstance method which iterates over the enums and does a string match.
  | Should I just use the valueOf and fix the strings in our tests?
  | Probably not, since it will break quite some things. :-)

RTFM :-)

You can actually do some pretty weird stuff, so don't overuse it ;-)


  | @XmlEnum(Integer.class)
  | public enum OldEnglishMoney
  | {
  |    @XmlEnumValue("D")
  |    PENNY(1),
  |    @XmlEnumValue("S")
  |    SHILLING(12)
  |    @XmlEnumValue("L")
  |    POUND(240)
  | }
  | 

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