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Java using enum with switch statement

Asked 2011-11-13T01:46:09.770
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I've looked at various Q&As on SO similar to this question but haven't found a solution.

What I have is an enum which represents different ways to view a TV Guide...

In the NDroid Application class

static enum guideView {
    GUIDE_VIEW_SEVEN_DAY,
    GUIDE_VIEW_NOW_SHOWING,
    GUIDE_VIEW_ALL_TIMESLOTS
}

...when the user changes the view an event handler receives an int from 0-2 and I'd like to do something like this...

In an Android Activity onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) event handler

// 'which' is an int from 0-2
switch (which) {
    case NDroid.guideView.GUIDE_VIEW_SEVEN_DAY:
    ...
    break;
}

I'm used to C# enums and select/case statements which would allow something like the above and I know Java does things differently but I just can't make sense of what I need to do.

Am I going to have to resort to if statements? There will likely only ever be 3 choices so I could do it but I wondered how it could be done with switch-case in Java.

EDIT Sorry I didn't completely expand on the issue as I was looking at it as being a generic Java issue. I've added to the question to explain a bit further.

There isn't anything that's Android specific which is why I didn't tag it as Android but the enum is defined in the Application class and the code where I wan't the switch is in an Activity. The enum is static as I need to access it from multiple Activities.

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enumerations accessing is very simple in switch case

private TYPE currentView;

//declaration of enum 
public enum TYPE {
        FIRST, SECOND, THIRD
    };

//handling in switch case
switch (getCurrentView())
        {
        case FIRST:
            break;
        case SECOND:
            break;
        case THIRD:
            break;
        }

//getter and setter of the enum
public void setCurrentView(TYPE currentView) {
        this.currentView = currentView;
    }

    public TYPE getCurrentView() {
        return currentView;
    }

//usage of setting the enum 
setCurrentView(TYPE.FIRST);

avoid the accessing of TYPE.FIRST.ordinal() it is not recommended always
answered 2013-04-26T06:02:21.060

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