Using Spring IoC to set up enum values

Question

Is there a way to set up such enum values via Spring IoC at construction time?

What I would like to do is to inject, at class load time, values that are hard-coded i

Answer 1

Why not provide a setter (or constructor argument) that takes a String, and simply call Enum.valueOf(String s) to convert from a String to an enum. Note an exception will get thrown if this fails, and your Spring initialisation will bail out.