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

[Antony R. <ri...@to...>]

I vote for -1 as well.

littleAnt.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sven Goethel" <sgo...@ja...>
To: "Alex Alessandra" <Az...@ne...>; "gl4java-usergroup"
<gl4...@li...>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: [gl4java-usergroup] Re: Integer for Constant


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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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