Case-insensitive matching of a string to a Java enum

Question

Java provides a valueOf() method for every Enum object, so given an enum like

public enum Day {
         


        

Answer 1

Starting from version 3.8 apache commons-lang EnumUtils has two handy methods for this:

• getEnumIgnoreCase(final Class enumClass, final String enumName)
• isValidEnumIgnoreCase(final Class enumClass, final String enumName)