Question

I have a class that looks like this:

public class Items {
    String uselessText;
    public static final Item COW = new Item("text", 0);
    public static final Item CAT = new Item("abc", 1);
    public static final Item DOG= new Item("wow", 2);
        ...SO on

    public void search(String search) {
          for(every Item in this Class) {
              if(item.textString == "abc") {
                 //DO SOMETHING
              }
          }

        }

Is this possible? And no thanks I do not want to do an Array (because I have over 100 Item and I want them static access)

Any idea?

Cheers

Answer 1

If you can list all of the possible instances of the class at compile time, use an enum.

public enum Items {

    COW("text", 0),
    CAT("abc", 1),
    DOG("wow", 2),
    // ...
    ;

    private final String textString;
    private final int number;

    private Item(String textString, int number) {
        this.textString = textString;
        this.number = number;
    }

    public void search(String search) {
        for(Item : values()) {
            if("abc".equals(item.textString)) {
                //DO SOMETHING
            }
        }
    }
}