Setting an Enum value based on incoming String

I have a number of setter methods which take an enum. These are based on incoming objects attribute. Rather than write a bunch of these is there a way around having to hard code say 10 different case statements. Would there be a way to create a reusable method?

//Side class declared as
public final enum Side

//How I initialise side
static Side side = Side.SELL;//default

//method to set object
Obj.setSide(sideEnum(zasAlloc.getM_buySellCode()));

//How I am implementing it
    public static Side sideEnum(String buysell)
    {

        if(buysell.equalsIgnoreCase("S"))
        {
            side = Side.SELL; //default 
        }
        els开发者_如何学编程e if(buysell.equalsIgnoreCase("B"))
        {
            side = Side.BUY; 
        }

        return side;

    }

You can implement that functionality in your Enum.

public enum Side {

    BUY("B"), SELL("S"), ...

    private String letter;
    private Side(String letter) {
        this.letter = letter;
    }

    public static Side fromLetter(String letter) {
        for (side s : values() ){
            if (s.letter.equals(letter)) return s;
        }
        return null;
    }

}

You could also do this as a helper static method if you can't edit Side.

public static Side fromString(String from) {
    for (Side s: Side.values()) {
        if (s.toString().startsWith(from)) {
            return s;
        }
    }

    throw new IllegalArgumentException( from );
}

The above method assumes your strings correspond to the names of you enums.

Enums have valueOf() method that can be used to convert from String. Is it what you are looking for?

I ended up using a simple object map:

private static HashMap<String, Side> sideMap = new HashMap<String, Side>(7);
static{
    sideMap.put("B", Side.BUY);
    sideMap.put("S", Side.SELL);
}

and simply using

Obj.setSide(sideMap.get(zasAlloc.getM_buySellCode()));

I think you need smth like:

Obj.setSide(Side.valueOf(zasAlloc.getM_buySellCode()));