How to pass enum as an argument in a method in java?

Question

public class Enumvalues{

    enum courseList {
        JAVA,
        C,
        PYTHON,
        PERL
    }

    enum generalInformation {
        NAME,
        AGE,         


        

Answer 1

TestEnumMain.java:

package enumSample;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.EnumUtils; 

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        boolean result= isValidEnum(DummyEnum.class, "APPLE"); 
        System.out.println("result= " + result); 
        boolean result2= isValidEnum2(DummyEnum.class, "COF"); 
        System.out.println("result2= " + result2); 
        //boolean result3= isValidEnum2(A_Different_Enum.class, "COF");  //works
        //System.out.println("result3= " + result3); 

    }

    public static> boolean isValidEnum2(Class enumClass, String enumName) {

        System.out.println("enumClass.getEnumConstants().length= " + enumClass.getEnumConstants().length); 
        System.out.println("enumClass.getEnumConstants()[0]= " + enumClass.getEnumConstants()[0]); 
        System.out.println("enumClass.getEnumConstants()[1]= " + enumClass.getEnumConstants()[1].name()); 
        System.out.println("enumName.valueOf(enumClass)= "+ enumName.valueOf(enumClass));

        if(enumName== null) {
            return false; 
        } else {
            try {
                if(enumClass.isAssignableFrom(DummyEnum.class)) { /*Checks if enumClass is an instance of DummyEnum.class*/
                    for (int i=0; i!= enumClass.getEnumConstants().length; i++) {
                        System.out.println("(DummyEnum) enumClass.getEnumConstants()["+i+"]).code()= "+ ((DummyEnum) enumClass.getEnumConstants()[i]).code());          
                        if(enumName.equals(((DummyEnum) enumClass.getEnumConstants()[i]).code())) {
                            return true; 
                        }
                    }                   
                    return false; 
                } else {
                    Enum.valueOf(enumClass, enumName); 
                    return true; 
                }
            } catch (IllegalArgumentException var3){
                return false; 
            }
        }

    }

    //Original Method from apache.commons.long3.EnumUtils: 
    public static> boolean isValidEnum(Class enumClass, String enumName) {
        if(enumName== null) {
            return false; 
        } else {
            try {
                Enum.valueOf(enumClass, enumName); 
                return true; 
            } catch (IllegalArgumentException var3){
                return false; 
            }
        }
    }
}

DummyEnum.java:

package enumSample;

public enum DummyEnum {
    APPLE("APP"), 
    GOOGLE("GOOG"), 
    CAPITAL_ONE("COF");

    private String code; 
    DummyEnum(String code) {this.code= code;}
    public String code() {return code;}
}