Why do I get an Enum constant reference cannot be qualified in a case label?

Question

Why does the following code fail to compile, while changing the case statement to

case ENUM1: doSomeStuff();

works?

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Answer 1

This is not really answering your question but if you have code depending on the enum value, you can also create an abstract method in your enum that gets overloaded for every value:

public enum EnumType {
    ENUM1 {
        @Override
        public void doSomeStuff() {
            // do something
        }
    },
    ENUM2 {
        @Override
        public void doSomeStuff() {
            // do something else
        }
    };

    public abstract void doSomeStuff();
}