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

You can make it as a contains method:

enum choices {a1, a2, b1, b2};
public boolean contains(String value){
    try{
        EnumSet.allOf(choices.class).contains(Enum.valueOf(choices.class, value));
        return true;
    }catch (Exception e) {
        return false;
    }
}

or you can just use it with your code block:

try{
    EnumSet.allOf(choices.class).contains(Enum.valueOf(choices.class, "a1"));
    //do something
}catch (Exception e) {
    //do something else
}