In Java, how to iterate on the constants of an interface?

Question

in an interface, I store constants in this way (I\'d like to know what you think of this practice). This is just a dummy example.

interface HttpConstants {
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Answer 1

Using reflection:

Field[] interfaceFields=HttpConstants.class.getFields();
for(Field f:interfaceFields) {
   //do something
}

But anyway, if you can redesign your class, I would recomend you to handle a static enum constants construction. So, suposing your class will contain always an int value for every constant:

enum HttpConstants {

    HTTP_OK(200), HTTP_CREATED(201), HTTP_ACCEPTED(202),
    HTTP_NOT_AUTHORITATIVE(203),HTTP_NO_CONTENT(204), 
    HTTP_RESET(205), HTTP_PARTIAL(206) /* ... */;

    private int value;

    HttpConstants(int aValue) {
        value=aValue;
    }

    public int getValue() {
        return value;
    }
}

Then, to loop on it:

    for(HttpConstants val: HttpConstants.values()) {
        int value=val.getValue();
            //...
    }

Thus, avoiding the access to the reflection API.