[TRINIDAD-2215] String -> Accessibility enum API

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-core
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.1-core
• Assignee: Andy Schwartz
• Reporter: Andy Schwartz
• Created: 14/Feb/12 03:12
• Updated: 21/Feb/12 18:51
• Resolved: 15/Feb/12 15:01

Description

The RequestContext.Accessibility enum defines aliases/pretty names for the enum constants:

public enum Accessibility
{
/**

• Output supports accessibility features
  */
  DEFAULT("default"),

/**

• Accessibility-specific constructs are stripped out to optimize output size
  */
  INACCESSIBLE("inaccessible"),

/**

• Accessibility-specific constructs are added to improve behavior under a screen reader
• (but may affect other users negatively)
  */
  SCREEN_READER("screenReader");

Accessibility(String name)

{ _name = name; }

@Override
public String toString()

{ return _name; }

private final String _name;
};

I have several places in my code where I need to translate from the pretty name/alias (eg. "screenReader"), back to the corresponding enum constant.

Enum.valueOf() is useless for this, since this only honors the canonical enum constant names (eg. "SCREEN_READER").

I would like an API that performs the equivalent functionality of Enum.valueOf(), but for the pretty names/aliases.