Question

I wish to convert a Color Object into a human readable String.

To clarify I’m just looking for a conversion of the Class’s static variables.

eg.

1. Color.YELLOW -> “yellow”
2. Color.RED -> “red”

Color red = Color.RED;
System.out.println(red.conversionMethod());

I want an output of “red”

Thank you in advance for your help.

Answer 1

Get use of Java reflection. This code gives useful output. You can remove unwanted ones from ArrayList via something like list.remove("BITMASK");

import java.awt.Color;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Test
{
    public static void main ( String [] args )
    {
        Field [] names = Color.class.getFields();
        ArrayList < String > list = new ArrayList < String >();

        for ( Field name: names )
            list.add( name.getName() );
        for ( int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++ )
            System.out.println( list.get( i ) );
    }
}

Output:

white WHITE lightGray LIGHT_GRAY gray GRAY darkGray DARK_GRAY black
BLACK red RED pink PINK orange ORANGE yellow YELLOW green GREEN
magenta MAGENTA cyan CYAN blue BLUE OPAQUE BITMASK TRANSLUCENT