Cannot refer to the static enum field within an initializer?

Question

I just got Java5 project that has this error, i tried using Java5 and Java6, but its still there. it worked somehow before(since it was in svn), how can i bypass that compil

Answer 1

Another way to "bypass" it, if you need for example a counter or something that needs to run on each initalization, is to create a private static inner class, like so:

public enum Foo {
    BAR, BAZ;

    private static final class StaticFields {
        private static final Map lowerCaseMap = new HashMap<>();
        private static int COUNTER = 0;
    }

    private Foo() {
        StaticFields.lowerCaseMap.put(this.name().toLowerCase(), this);
        StaticFields.COUNTER++;
    }
}