How to convert String to Enum in Java? ValueOf Example

valueOf Example in Java Enum

valueOf method of Java Enum is used to retrieve Enum constant declared in Enum Type by passing String in other words valueOf method is used to convert String to Enum constants. In this Java Enum valueOf example we will see how to use the valueOf method in Java. valueOf method is implicitly available to all Java Enum because every enum in Java implicitly extends java.lang.Enum class. valueOf method of enum accepts exactly the same String which is used to declare Enum constant to return that Enum constant. valueOf method is case-sensitive and invalid String will result in IllegalArgumentException.

Java Enum with Constructor Example

Java Enum with Constructor

Many Java developers don't know that Java Enum can have a constructor to pass data while creating Enum constants. This feature allows you to associate related data together. One example of passing arguments to enum Constructor is our TrafficLight Enum where we pass the action to each Enum instance e.g. GREEN is associate with go, RED is associated with stop, and ORANGE is associated with the slow down. 

14 Enum Interview Questions and Answers for 1 to 2 Years Experienced Java Programmers

Hello Java developers, Java Enum is one of the best features of Java Programming language which was first added on the JDK 1.5 Tiger release along with Generics, Autoboxing, and varargs. While the concept of Enum was also present in C Programming language, in Java its much more powerful. Enum in Java represents a fixed number of well-known things like the number of days in a week, the number of months in the calendar year, etc. Unlike C and C++ Enum in Java are much powerful and they are not an integer constant, Instead, Enum is a Type in Java like class or interface which provides compile-time type safety. In this Java Enum tutorial, we will see a couple of important points about Java Enum which help to understand Enum better and get the most out of it. 

String to Enum in Java - Example

Creating Enum from String
You can create Enum from String by using Enum.valueOf() method. valueOf() is a static method that is added on every Enum class during compile-time and it's implicitly available to all Enum along with values(), name(), and cardinal() methods. In order to create Enum from String, String must be the same as declared Enum otherwise, the code will throw "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No enum const class". the same technique can be used to convert String into Enum instance as well. 

How to use Enum in Java? Example

Enum is a useful feature of Java and the best way to represent a fixed number of things like the number of the planet in the solar system, the number of state orders can be, or simply a number of days in a week. Java Enum is different than its predecessor in other languages like C and C++, where the enum is just a wrapper around integer constant. Enum in Java is a full-blown type like class and interface, they can have a constructor (though only private constructors are permitted for Enum), they can override methods, they can have member variables, they can even declare methods, can implement interfaces, and have specialized high-performance Map and Set implementation in form of EnumMap and EnumSet.

Top 15 Java Enum Interview Questions Answers for 3 to 5 Years Experienced

Enum was introduced in Java 5 and since then it's been very popular among Java developers and widely used in different Java applications. Since Enum in Java is much more versatile than Enum in C or C++, it also presents lots of interesting use cases, a couple of them, we have seen in my article 10 ways to use Enum in Java. But, despite being so popular, many Java programmers are still not aware of the functionality provided by Enum and the subtle details of using Enum in Java code. 

How to use Java Enum in Switch Case Statement - Exampel Tutorial

Java Enum in Switch Case Statement

Yesterday, someone ask me Can we use Java Enum in Switch case? Obviously, he was learning Enum and not aware that How powerful Enum in Java is. Yes, You can use Enum in Switch case statement in Java like int primitive. If you are familiar with enum int pattern, where integers represent enum values prior to Java 5 then you already knows how to  use the Switch case with Enum. Using Java Enum in the Switch case is pretty straightforward, Just use Enum reference variable in Switch and Enum constants or instances in CASE statement. In this Java tutorial we will see one example of How to use Enum in Switch statement in Java. 

Autoboxing, Enum, Generics, Varargs methods - Java 5 Features Quick Overview

What is Autoboxing, Generics, Enum and Varargs method in Java 5
Java 5 introduces Autoboxing, Generics, varargs and Enum along with several other features and improvement. It's been few years when Java programming language was enhanced with these features but still Java programmer thing Autoboxing, Enum, Generics or Variable arguments as an advanced feature and afraid to learn them. They are very much part of Java fundamentals just like Abstraction, Inheritance, Encapsulation and Polymorphism are part of Object oriented programming concepts. It's important to understand what are these feature and How to use them, even if you don't use them in your code, you may have to work on someone else code which is written in Java 5 and uses Generics Collection, Autoboxing quite frequently.

How to Iterate over Java Enum : values() Example

Enum Values() Example
In this Java programming tutorial, we will learn how to iterate over enum in Java. Since Enums are a collection of a finite number of well-known objects, often we need to iterate over them. Enums are also final in Java and have a private constructor, which means you can not create enum instances once declared. Iteration over Enum is extremely simple, provided you know about the implicit values() method, which is a static method, provided by java.lang.Enum. Since every enum in Java extends java.lang.Enum, they all get this implicit values() method. Actually there are couple of them, e.g. valueOf(), name(), ordinal() etc. This method returns enum constants in the order they are declared in the Enum class. Even the ordinal() method returns the same order.