Localizing enum values in resource bundle

Question

I have a problem with i18n enums in my JSF application. When I started, I had enums with the text defined inside. But now, I have keys tied to message bundles in the enum.

Answer 1

Well, enum is just another class. There is nothing stopping you from adding parsing and to-string conversion methods that will parse and output locale-sensitive messages.

Maybe it violates Single Responsible Principle (does it?), but I believe making enum responsible for parsing and returning locale-aware values is the right thing to do.

Just add two methods like this:

public String toString(FacesContext context) {
   // need to modify the method   
   FacesUtil.getMessageValue(context, name);
}

public OrderStatus parse(FacesContext context, String theName) {
  for (OrderStatus value : values()) {
    if (value.toString(context).equals(theName) {
      return value;
    }
  }
  // think of something better
  return null;
}

I hope I got the code right, as I am not checking it with IDE now... Is this what you were looking for?