get enum name from enum value [duplicate]

Answer 1

If you want something more efficient in runtime condition, you can have a map that contains every possible choice of the enum by their value. But it'll be juste slower at initialisation of the JVM.

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Example of enum with a getter that need a value in parameter, and that return the Choice/Instance 
 * of the enum which has the same value.
 * The value of each choice can be random.
 */
public enum MyEnum {
    /** a random choice */
    Choice1(4),
    /** a nother one */
    Choice2(2),
    /** another one again */
    Choice3(9);
    /** a map that contains every choices of the enum ordered by their value. */
    private static final Map MY_MAP = new HashMap();
    static {
        // populating the map
        for (MyEnum myEnum : values()) {
            MY_MAP.put(myEnum.getValue(), myEnum);
        }
    }
    /** the value of the choice */
    private int value;

    /**
     * constructor
     * @param value the value
     */
    private MyEnum(int value) {
        this.value = value;
    }

    /**
     * getter of the value
     * @return int
     */
    public int getValue() {
        return value;
    }

    /**
     * Return one of the choice of the enum by its value.
     * May return null if there is no choice for this value.
     * @param value value
     * @return MyEnum
     */
    public static MyEnum getByValue(int value) {
        return MY_MAP.get(value);
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     * @see java.lang.Enum#toString()
     */
    public String toString() {
        return name() + "=" + value;
    }

    /**
     * Exemple of how to use this class.
     * @param args args
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        MyEnum enum1 = MyEnum.Choice1;
        System.out.println("enum1==>" + String.valueOf(enum1));
        MyEnum enum2GotByValue = MyEnum.getByValue(enum1.getValue());
        System.out.println("enum2GotByValue==>" + String.valueOf(enum2GotByValue));
        MyEnum enum3Unknown = MyEnum.getByValue(4);
        System.out.println("enum3Unknown==>" + String.valueOf(enum3Unknown));
    }
}