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

This approach can be used to check any Enum, you can add it to an Utils class:

public static > boolean enumContains(Class enumerator, String value)
{
    for (T c : enumerator.getEnumConstants()) {
        if (c.name().equals(value)) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

Use it this way:

boolean isContained = Utils.enumContains(choices.class, "value");