Universal Enum to String Converter

[holsen]

Hi there,

is there any way to build a universal Enum to String Converter in order to use it with a databinder? I'm using quite a lot of Enums in my data object. right now I'm writing a seperate converter for each Enum. Since  I am not very good with generics I was wondering if it possible and if somebody has already done so.

Thanks!

Chris

[mbarkley]

Hi Chris,

That's a tricky question. You could try a global converter, but you would only be able to implement converting from Enum to String and not vice-versa.

If you're using programmatic bindings (i.e. dataBinder.bind(textBox, "myEnum", myEnumConverter) and not the @Bound declaration) you could make a converter like this.

So in short, it's probably not possible to do in the way you are thinking.

-- Max

[holsen]

Hi,

thanks for your reply! I'll guess I'll just write a global converter for each ENUM.

Chris