Enum-Almighty

Introductory

Very often, we use tools strictly according to purpose, barring ourselves from taking a step left or right. But what if we forget a little? What if we look at things we are used to from a different angle? This article summarizes the use of enumerations and conducted a small experiment on them. Sarcasm, humor and some philosophy questions. Who cares, welcome under cat.

Warning

In this article you will not find for yourself new technical knowledge, revelations, and if you crave them, then feel free to proceed to the next article. Nevertheless, there is something to be surprised at and something to think about. Technical humor and philosophical thoughts between the lines.

No story told ...

Once a developer gets to the place where fate is decided. Time later, an image appears in front of him and asks:

- Who are you?

- I, the developer, call Ivan , - but to myself: I stuck it in.

Voice again:

- Want to go there? . A look at the door, behind which paradise.

- Yeah , - timidly Ivan.

- What are you telling me? - asks the voice.

A little thought, Ivan begins to say:

- There is a java Enum-Almighty.

- How so, Almighty? - interrupts the voice with indignation. - This is only a listing!

public enum JavaLanguage { JAVA("Forever"), SCALA("Next generation") {}, KOTLIN("Future") {}; private final String claim; JavaLanguage(String claim) { this.claim = claim; } public String getClaim() { return claim; } } 

- Yeah , - says the developer, But not only.

- Prove it!

- Enum like nails, scrap mogot.

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 public enum LanguageUtils { ; /** java-doc */ LanguageUtils() { throw new IllegalStateException("  "); } /** java-doc */ public static String[] getKeyWords(String languageName) { if (languageName != null) { //    return loadFromResource(languageName + "/keywords.dat"); } throw new IllegalStateException("  "); } /** java-doc */ private static synchronized String[] loadFromResource(String resourceName) { String[] items = null; //    return items; } /**     */ } 

- In so miracles, but ... He has no heir!

- And this is how to look. And who is considered the Heir? Scala? Kotlin?

- Give an example, without waiting for the developer to complete your question

  //  JavaLanguage.java  public static void main(String[] args) { // it's true if (JAVA.getClass() == SCALA.getClass().getSuperclass()) { System.out.println("  !"); } // it's true if (JAVA.getClass() == KOTLIN.getClass().getSuperclass()) { System.out.println("  !"); } } 

- Yeah, you guys are interesting, progers - already smiling, says the Voice, - But there will be a little

Having scratched his turnip, Ivan continued:

- Enum, we have a factory!

- No, it was already.

I had to get Ivan the last trump card:

- Enum-Singleton, for sure!

Choose your

Are you for Java? public enum Highlander { JAVA; Highlander() { if (ordinal() != 0) { throw new IllegalStateException(" "); } init(); } private void init() { // ! } /** java-doc */ public String getOwner(String index) { // return " , Sun Microsystems"; } }

Are you for Scala? public enum Highlander { SCALA {}; Highlander() { if (ordinal() != 0) { throw new IllegalStateException(" "); } init(); } private void init() { // ! } /** java-doc */ public String getOwner(String index) { // return " , "; } }

Are you for Kotlin? public enum Highlander { KOTLIN {}; Highlander() { if (ordinal() != 0) { throw new IllegalStateException(" "); } init(); } private void init() { // ! } /** java-doc */ public String getOwner(String index) { // return " , JetBrains"; } }

- Joshua Bloch says * that this is the best implementation of Singleton.

- Well, what about you?

- What about me? This, this is a singleton factory , for storing one single item, titling bang ...

 Highlander.valueOf("JAVA"); 

This is the point to access the array to store a single element, to beat bash ...

 Highlander.values()[0]; 

This is the heir of the class ... , - Ivan wanted to continue, but was pleasantly surprised:

- Come on in ...

Few conclusions

In total, it turns out that enum can be endowed with the following qualities and properties, depending on the point of view:

• Listing and data
• Framework for utility class
• The framework for the singleton class + anti-puffer is attached
• Factory frame

Experiment

I decided to understand how much you can generate the elements of enumerations. My own answer and reality are so diverged that I doubted my knowledge. Before you look below, try to answer yourself. Simplify, say at least the order? Here is the code I used to generate the enumeration class (on a quick hand):





Have you already guessed? So, on Semerochka I managed to generate a total of 2,746 enumeration elements. And then this:





But, since I rolled my lip into 4 floors, at first I received the following error:





And then, twisting it a little, like this:





I was also wondering how such an enumeration can digest known decompilers. Total for the subjective assessment of expectations:

A place	Decompiler	Result
one	fernflower.jar	OK
2	jad	Ok
3	procyon	Waited
four	cfr_0_115.jar	Not wait

Thank you for attention.

Sources and Inspirers

Effective Java, 2nd Edition, by Joshua Bloch *

Wikipedia

Right singleton in java

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