Getting all names in an enum as a String[]

Question

What\'s the easiest and/or shortest way possible to get the names of enum elements as an array of Strings?

What I mean by this is that if, for example,

Answer 1

Something like this would do:

public static String[] names() {
  String[] names = new String[values().length];
  int index = 0;

  for (State state : values()) {
    names[index++] = state.name();
  }

  return names;
}

The documentation recommends using toString() instead of name() in most cases, but you have explicitly asked for the name here.