Re: [gl4java-usergroup] Re: Integer for Constant

[Sven G. <sgo...@ja...>]

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On Friday 14 June 2002 16:23, Alex Alessandra wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I'm not deep into C2J, but I can suggest an obvious method to accomplish
> the task, the following code is generic and works outside gl4java classes,
> but, again, please consider the implementation into the gl4java package:
>
>       public static int getIntForConstant(String constant) {
>         try {
>           java.lang.Class enumClass =
> java.lang.Class.forName("gl4java.GLEnum"); java.lang.reflect.Field[] fields
> = enumClass.getFields();
>
>           for(int i=0; i<fields.length; i++) {
>
>             if(fields[i].getName().equals(constant)) {
>               // Found!
>               return fields[i].getInt(enumClass);
>             }
>           }
>         } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
>           // Would it occur ??? Do nothing...
>         } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
>           // GLEnum not found ??? Do nothing...
>         }
>         // Not found!
>         return 0;
>       }
>
> This method returns the correct GLEnum.[field] as int value if the given
> constant string exists, otherwise it returns simply 0 (maybe -1 is more
> appropriate, or throwing an Exception???).
>
> Waiting for comments...
>

ok !

i guess "-1" would be more c stylish ;-)

but if somebody loves exceptions more .. well, let's vote.

my vote: -1

i do wait a bit, then i can cvs ci this function as a static function
within GLEnum ?

cheers, sven
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