Title: using enum or old-fashion way in C#
Post by puzzlecracker on Sep 28th, 2008, 3:51pm
I am porting old java code to csharp and now facing a stumbling block. Before advent of enum in Java, developers used enum-like structures, shown below. However, AFAIK, CSharp isn't lacking this particular feature, and I don't want to port it in an old way. Here is the code below (in java ) that I want to approximate in C#. Note that I have lots of alike classes.
Code:
public class Derived extends Base {
public static final int FOO_VAL = 0 ;
public static final int BAR_VAL = 1 ;
;
public static final Derived FOO = new Derived(FOO_VAL, "FOO");
public static final Derived BAR = new Derived(BAR_VAL, "BAR");
private Derived(int aValue) {
super(aValue);
}
private Derived(int aValue, String aString) {
super(aValue, aString);
}
public static Derived getType (int aValue) {
if ( aValue == FOO_VAL ) return FOO;
if ( aValue == BAR_VAL ) return BAR;
return NEW;
}
//Getting type accross the wire
public static Derived getType (
final InputStream is )
throws IOException, IllegalReadException {
final int[] val = new int[1];
is.getNextField(val);
return getType(val[0]);
}
public static Derived getType (String aValue)
{
if ( aValue.equals(Foo.toString()) ) return BAR;
if ( aValue.equals(Bar.toString()) ) return FOO;
return BAR;
}
} |
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Thanks,
puzzlecracker |