Setting an Enum value based on incoming String

Question

I have a number of setter methods which take an enum. These are based on incoming objects attribute. Rather than write a bunch of these is there a way around having to hard code

Answer 1

I ended up using a simple object map:

private static HashMap sideMap = new HashMap(7);
static{
    sideMap.put("B", Side.BUY);
    sideMap.put("S", Side.SELL);
}

and simply using

Obj.setSide(sideMap.get(zasAlloc.getM_buySellCode()));