Best way to create enum of strings

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What is the best way to have a enum type represent a set of strings   I tried this   enum Strings     STRING ONE  ONE    STRING TWO  TWO       How can I then use them as Strings

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Depending on what you mean by  use them as Strings   you might not want to use an enum here  In most cases  the solution proposed by The Elite Gentleman will allow you to use them through their toString-methods  e g  in System out println STRING ONE  or String s    Hello   STRING TWO  but when you really need Strings  e g  STRING ONE toLowerCase     you might prefer defining them as constants   public interface Strings    public static final String STRING ONE    ONE     public static final String STRING TWO    TWO

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Either set the enum name to be the same as the string you want or  more generally you can associate arbitrary attributes with your enum values   enum Strings      STRING ONE  ONE    STRING TWO  TWO       private final String stringValue     Strings final String s    stringValue   s       public String toString     return stringValue          further methods  attributes  etc      It s important to have the constants at the top  and the methods attributes at the bottom

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I don t know what you want to do  but this is how I actually translated your example code      package test           author The Elite Gentleman        public enum Strings       STRING ONE  ONE        STRING TWO  TWO              private final String text                   param text             Strings final String text            this text   text                 non-Javadoc          see java lang Enum toString                Override     public String toString             return text            Alternatively  you can create a getter method for text   You can now do Strings STRING ONE toString

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Use its name   method   public class Main       public static void main String   args  throws Exception           System out println Strings ONE name              enum Strings       ONE  TWO  THREE     yields ONE

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Get and set with default values   public enum Status        STATUS A  Status A     STATUS B  Status B         private String status       Status String status            this status   status             public String getStatus             return status

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You can use that for string Enum  public enum EnumTest       NAME ONE  Name 1        NAME TWO  Name 2         private final String name                   param name             private EnumTest final String name            this name   name             public String getName             return name            And call from main method  public class Test       public static void main  String args             System out println EnumTest NAME ONE getName             System out println EnumTest NAME TWO getName

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Custom String Values for Enum  from http   javahowto blogspot com 2006 10 custom-string-values-for-enum html  The default string value for java enum is its face value  or the element name  However  you can customize the string value by overriding toString   method  For example   public enum MyType     ONE         public String toString               return  this is one                   TWO         public String toString               return  this is two                   Running the following test code will produce this   public class EnumTest     public static void main String   args          System out println MyType ONE         System out println MyType TWO           this is one this is two

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If you do not want to use constructors  and you want to have a special name for the method  try it this   public enum MyType     ONE         public String getDescription               return  this is one                      TWO         public String getDescription               return  this is two                   public abstract String getDescription        I suspect that this is the quickest solution  There is no need to use variables final

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