Question

I’ve read a lot about how obtain the corresponding name of an enum from its value using java, but no example seems to work for me! What is wrong?

public class Extensions {


    public enum RelationActiveEnum
    {
        Invited(0),
        Active(1),
        Suspended(2);

        private final int value;

        private RelationActiveEnum(final int value) {
            this.value = value;
        }
    }

}

and in another class I use:

        int dbValue = supp.ACTIVE;
        Extensions.RelationActiveEnum enumValue(dbValue);
        String stringName = enumValue.toString(); //Visible
        // OR
        int dbValuee = supp.ACTIVE;
        String stringValue = Enum.GetName(typeof(RelationActiveEnum), dbValue);

I should work, right? but it doesn’t!!!! it tells me that dbValue cannote be cast to RelationActiveEnum…

Answer 1

Since your ‘value’ also happens to match with ordinals you could just do:

public enum RelationActiveEnum {
    Invited,
    Active,
    Suspended;

    private final int value;

    private RelationActiveEnum() {
        this.value = ordinal();
    }
}

And getting a enum from the value:

int value = 1;
RelationActiveEnum enumInstance = RelationActiveEnum.values()[value];

I guess an static method would be a good place to put this:

public enum RelationActiveEnum {
     public static RelationActiveEnum fromValue(int value) 
             throws IllegalArgumentException {
         try {
              return RelationActiveEnum.values()[value]
         } catch(ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
              throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown enum value :"+ value);
         }
     }
}   

Obviously this all falls apart if your ‘value’ isn’t the same value as the enum ordinal.