Question

I need to create an element repository for my app.

This is the class I created.

public class Elements
{
  public enum Type1
  {
    A    ("text1"),
    B    ("text2"),
    C    ("text3"),
    D    ("text4"),
    E    ("text5");

    private String identifier;

    Type1(String identifier)
    {
      this.identifier = identifier;
    }

    getPath()
    {
      String path = "";
      //do something
      return path;
    }
  }
}

Now I can access the values using Elements.type1.A.getPath();

I did a static import of Elements.type1 and I want to remove the usage of getPath() because it would complicate my code. ie. I need to be able to use type1.A.

So I did,

public class Elements
{
  public enum Type1
  {
    A
      {
        public String toString()
        {
          return getPath("text1");
        }
      },
    B
      {
        public String toString()
        {
          return getPath("text2");
        }
      },
    C
      {
        public String toString()
        {
          return getPath("text3");
        }
      };

    Type1() {}
  }
}

Now I can use Elements.Type1.A with print statements but I have a method which accepts String as parameter.

So that makes it Elements.Type1.A.toString(). Without toString(), it throws an error.

Is there a method to get rid of toString()?

Edit : New Code

public Interface Type1 
{
   String A = "text1";
   String B = "text2";
   String C = "text3"; 
}
public class Utility 
{
   public static void main(String[] args) 
   {
     getPath(Type1.A); 
   }
   public static void getPath(String arg) 
   { 
    //Constructs xpath - text1 changes to //*[contains(@class,'text1')] 
    return xpath; 
   } 
} 
public class myClass 
{
   public void doSomething() 
   {
     assertEquals(Type1.A,xpath); 
   } 
}

Here, Type1.A returns “text1” and not //*[contains(@class,’text1′)]

Answer 1

It appears you need three String constants not enums.

public static final String A = "test1";
public static final String B = "test2";
public static final String C = "test3";

Using an interface is not always best, but without further context I can’t suggest something better

public interface Type1 {
    String A = "test1";
    String B = "test2";
    String C = "test3";
}