How can I eliminate duplicated Enum code?

Question

I have a large number of Enums that implement this interface:

/**
 * Interface for an enumeration, each element of which can be uniquely identified by its co         


        

Answer 1

Here I have another solution:

interface EnumTypeIF {
String getValue();

EnumTypeIF fromValue(final String theValue);

EnumTypeIF[] getValues();

class FromValue {
  private FromValue() {
  }

  public static EnumTypeIF valueOf(final String theValue, EnumTypeIF theEnumClass) {

    for (EnumTypeIF c : theEnumClass.getValues()) {
      if (c.getValue().equals(theValue)) {
        return c;
      }
    }
    throw new IllegalArgumentException(theValue);
  }
}

The trick is that the inner class can be used to hold "global methods".

Worked pretty fine for me. OK, you have to implement 3 Methods, but those methods, are just delegators.