How to get an enum value from a string value in Java?

Question

Say I have an enum which is just

public enum Blah {
    A, B, C, D
}

and I would like to find the enum value of a string, for example

Answer 1

Enum is very useful, I have been using Enum a lot to add a description for some fields in different languages, as the following example:

public enum Status {

    ACT(new String[] { "Accepted", "مقبول" }),
    REJ(new String[] { "Rejected", "مرفوض" }),
    PND(new String[] { "Pending", "في الانتظار" }),
    ERR(new String[] { "Error", "خطأ" }),
    SNT(new String[] { "Sent", "أرسلت" });

    private String[] status;

    public String getDescription(String lang) {
        return lang.equals("en") ? status[0] : status[1];
    }

    Status(String[] status) {
        this.status = status;
    }
}

And then you can retrieve the description dynamically based in the language code passed to getDescription(String lang) method, for example:

String statusDescription = Status.valueOf("ACT").getDescription("en");