newbie: how to access enums in webpage

[mars1412]

situation:
a webUser has a status field, which is of type WebUserStatus (that's my enum)

in the page, I want to restrict access, dependant on the status:

only those 2 methods came to my mind:

1) create a seam-component, with a function like this

     public WebUserStatus getWebUserStatusByName(String status) {
          return WebUserStatus.valueOf(status);
     }

and compare this:

rendered="#{webUser.status.equals(enumHelper.webUserStatusByName('ACTIVE'))">

• I have to use hardcoded strings for the enumerations, and a typo will result in a runtime exception


• here one could argue, that all other EL-expressions on the page are also just dump strings - but those strings will be checked by JBDS and I'll get warnings, errors, code-completion, etc. - but 'ACTIVE' is really just a string where these features cannot work

2) create one comparefunctin for each status:

public class Webuser {
   public boolean isActive() {
      return status == WebUserStatus.ACTIVE;
   }
   public boolean isDeactivated() {
      return status == WebUserStatus.DEACTIVED;
   }
   ...
}

• if I add a new status, I also have to write a new compare function (violates DRY)

any other options?

[mars1412]

finally I decided to use a variation of version 2:

I add one check function for every status on my enum entitiy - seems to be the best compromise for me.

public enum WebUserStatus {
        ACTIVE,
        DEACTIVATED,
        ...

        public boolean isRegistered() {
                return this.equals(REGISTERED);
        }
        public boolean isDeactivated() {
                return this.equals(DEACTIVATED);
        }

so I can use this in my page:

rendered="#{webUser.status.deactivated}">