Java: Check if enum contains a given string?

Question

Here\'s my problem - I\'m looking for (if it even exists) the enum equivalent of ArrayList.contains();.

Here\'s a sample of my code problem:

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Answer 1

A couple libraries have been mentioned here, but I miss the one that I was actually looking for: Spring!

There is the ObjectUtils#containsConstant which is case insensitive by default, but can be strict if you want. It is used like this:

if(ObjectUtils.containsConstant(Choices.values(), "SOME_CHOISE", true)){
// do stuff
}

Note: I used the overloaded method here to demonstrate how to use case sensitive check. You can omit the boolean to have case insensitive behaviour.

Be careful with large enums though, as they don't use the Map implementation as some do...

As a bonus, it also provides a case insensitive variant of the valueOf: ObjectUtils#caseInsensitiveValueOf