Question

What’s the Java equivalent of C#’s:

enum Foo
{
  Bar = 0,
  Baz = 1,
  Fii = 10,
}

Answer 1

If you want attributes for your enum you need to define it like this:

public enum Foo {
    BAR (0),
    BAZ (1),
    FII (10);

    private final int index;   

    Foo(int index) {
        this.index = index;
    }

    public int index() { 
        return index; 
    }

}

You’d use it like this:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    for (Foo f : Foo.values()) {
       System.out.printf("%s has index %d%n", f, f.index());
    }
}

The thing to realise is that enum is just a shortcut for creating a class, so you can add whatever attributes and methods you want to the class.

If you don’t want to define any methods on your enum you could change the scope of the member variables and make them public, but that’s not what they do in the example on the Sun website.