Question

I have a simple Enum created

public interface Params
{
  public enum Locale 
  {
      UK("UK"), US("US");
      private String value;

      private Locale(String value) {
              this.value = value;
      }
  }; 

....

Here is my method I want to modify to take a Params.Locale attribute.

    public void doErrorQuery(Locale locale, String p_listStr)
    {
        if (p_spellingList == null)
        {
        result.setError(true);
        result.setErrorMessage("Null spelling list");
        return;
    }

I import my Locale enum using

import com.Params.Locale;

Problem is I can’t get this to compile, It’s telling me it can’t resolve the Locale. Even if I use Params.Locale it does not work, can’t resolve name.

Answer 1

You should use an own enum class for the enum. Doing this would be a cleaner design in my eyes:

public enum Locale {
   UK("UK"), US("US");
   private String value;

   private Locale(String value) {
       this.value = value;
   }
}