Effective Enums in Kotlin with reverse lookup?

Question

I\'m trying to find the best way to do a \'reverse lookup\' on an enum in Kotlin. One of my takeaways from Effective Java was that you introduce a static map inside the enum

Answer 1

A variant of some previous proposals might be the following, using ordinal field and getValue :

enum class Type {
A, B, C;

companion object {
    private val map = values().associateBy(Type::ordinal)

    fun fromInt(number: Int): Type {
        require(number in 0 until map.size) { "number out of bounds (must be positive or zero & inferior to map.size)." }
        return map.getValue(number)
    }
}

}