Newbie Question...

[Raven123]

Hello,

I am moving to Java from Delphi and have a question...

In Delphi, it's legal to create enumerated types like:

type Suit = (Club, Diamond, Heart, Spade);

which defines an enumerated type called Suit whose possible values are Club, Diamond, Heart, and Spade.... Therefore, when I create a variable of type 'Suit', it has to be one of these values (or nil).

How do I re-create this behavior in Java?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Rich.

 

[jeanpierre]

String suit = {"Diamonds, "Hearts" etc}

I do not know Delphi so I may have misunderstood your question.

 

[rajarajan]

Hi Raven123,
You can create a class as follows
class Cards {
private String value;
private Cards(String value) {
this.value = value;
}
public String getValue() {
return value;
}
public static final Cards CLUB = new Cards("Club"
public static final Cards DIAMOND = new Cards("Diamond"
public static final Cards HEART = new Cards("Heart"
public static final Cards SPADE = new Cards("Spade"
}
And in the application you can use it as,
Cards cardVar = Cards.CLUB;
and you can access the value stored as,
System.out.println(cardVar.getValue());

Hope this helps you.
Regards,
Rajarajan