/*
* @(#)Enum.java 1.12 04/06/08
*
* Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
* SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
*/
package java.lang;
import java.io.Serializable;
/**
* This is the common base class of all Java language enumeration types.
*
* @author Josh Bloch
* @author Neal Gafter
* @version 1.12, 06/08/04
* @since 1.5
*/
public abstract class Enum<E extends Enum<E>>
implements Comparable<E>, Serializable {
/**
* The name of this enum constant, as declared in the enum declaration.
* Most programmers should use the {@link #toString} method rather than
* accessing this field.
*/
private final String name;
[..]
/**
* Compares this enum with the specified object for order. Returns a
* negative integer, zero, or a positive integer as this object is less
* than, equal to, or greater than the specified object.
*
* Enum constants are only comparable to other enum constants of the
* same enum type. The natural order implemented by this
* method is the order in which the constants are declared.
*/
public final int compareTo(E o) {
Enum other = (Enum)o;
Enum self = this;
if (self.getClass() != other.getClass() && // optimization
self.getDeclaringClass() != other.getDeclaringClass())
throw new ClassCastException();
return self.ordinal - other.ordinal;
}
[..]
/**
* Returns the enum constant of the specified enum type with the
* specified name. The name must match exactly an identifier used
* to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace
* characters are not permitted.)
*
* @param enumType the <tt>Class</tt> object of the enum type from which
* to return a constant
* @param name the name of the constant to return
* @return the enum constant of the specified enum type with the
* specified name
* @throws IllegalArgumentException if the specified enum type has
* no constant with the specified name, or the specified
* class object does not represent an enum type
* @throws NullPointerException if <tt>enumType</tt> or <tt>name</tt>
* is null
* @since 1.5
*/
public static <T extends Enum<T>> T valueOf(Class<T> enumType,
String name) {
T result = enumType.enumConstantDirectory().get(name);
if (result != null)
return result;
if (name == null)
throw new NullPointerException("Name is null");
throw new IllegalArgumentException(
"No enum const " + enumType +"." + name);
}
}
