Java: Enum parameter in method

Question

I have a method lets say:

private static String drawCellValue(
    int maxCellLength, String cellValue, String align) { }

and as you can no

Answer 1

Sure, you could use an enum. Would something like the following work?

enum Alignment {
    LEFT,
    RIGHT
}

private static String drawCellValue(int maxCellLength, String cellValue, Alignment alignment) { }

If you wanted to use a boolean, you could rename the align parameter to something like alignLeft. I agree that this implementation is not as clean, but if you don't anticipate a lot of changes and this is not a public interface, it might be a good choice.