[Springframework-developer] EnumEditor

[Andreas S. <an...@sc...>]

Hello everyone,

I've recently written the following PropertyEditor for JDK 1.5 style 
Enums. I think that could be a good addition to Spring >= 1.2. So, feel 
free to include it if it fits (should I open an issue for this?)

public class EnumEditor extends PropertyEditorSupport
{
     private Class enumClass;
     private boolean strictCase;

     public EnumEditor(Class enumClass, boolean strictCase)
     {
         this.enumClass = enumClass;
         this.strictCase = strictCase;
     }

     public void setAsText(String text) throws IllegalArgumentException
     {
         if(strictCase)
             text = text.toUpperCase();
         setValue(Enum.valueOf(enumClass, text));
     }

     public String getAsText()
     {
         String text = ((Enum) getValue()).name();
         if(strictCase)
             return text.toLowerCase();
         else
             return text;
     }
}

The strictCase option is for conversion between uppercase Enum instances 
(like constants) and usually lowercase identifiers used in web forms.

Regards,

Andreas