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    Hierarchical structures with Java ...

    11/10/2010 20:29 1 de 2

    Hierarchical structures with Java Enums


    October 9th, 2010

    I love Enums. There are a lot of use cases, where they become really handy. Especially since I have
    learned that you can override methods in enums…

    Some days ago Alexander Radzin came up with another nice idea ( http://alexradzin.blogspot.com/2010/10
    /hierarchical-structures-with-java-enums_05.html ) : He created a hierarchical structure using enums. The
    idea is very simple: Just add a reference to the parent to your enum.

    While the idea is really nice, the implementation seems to be a little bit too complicated. I think using
    reflection is not a very nice thing at all. Therefore I have modified his implementation.

    And this is the idea. That idea has a lot of potential – I am sure I will find a lot of nice use cases…

    public enum OsType {


    OS(null),
    Windows(OS),
    WindowsNT(Windows),
    WindowsNTWorkstation(WindowsNT),
    WindowsNTServer(WindowsNT),
    Windows2000(Windows),
    Windows2000Server(Windows2000),
    Windows2000Workstation(Windows2000),
    WindowsXp(Windows),
    WindowsVista(Windows),
    Windows7(Windows),
    Windows95(Windows),
    Windows98(Windows),
    Unix(OS) {
    @Override
    public boolean supportsXWindowSystem() {
    return true;
    }
    },
    Linux(Unix),
    AIX(Unix),
    HpUx(Unix),
    SunOs(Unix),
    ;

    private final OsType parent;


    private final List<OsType> children = new ArrayList<OsType>();
    private final List<OsType> allChildren = new ArrayList<OsType>();

    OsType( OsType parent ) {


    this.parent = parent;
    if ( parent != null ) {
    parent.addChild( this );
    }
    }

    public OsType parent() {


    return parent;
    }

    public boolean is( OsType other ) {


    if ( other == null ) {
    return false;

    http://blog.cedarsoft.com/2010/10/hierarchical-structures-with-java-enums/
    Hierarchical structures with Java ... 11/10/2010 20:29 2 de 2

    for ( OsType osType = this; osType != null; osType = osType.parent() ) {


    if ( other == osType ) {
    return true;
    }
    }
    return false;
    }

    public List<? extends OsType> children() {


    return Collections.unmodifiableList( children );
    }

    public List<? extends OsType> allChildren() {


    return Collections.unmodifiableList( allChildren );
    }

    private void addChild( OsType child ) {


    this.children.add( child );

    List<OsType> greatChildren = new ArrayList<OsType>();


    greatChildren.add( child );
    greatChildren.addAll( child.allChildren() );

    OsType currentAncestor = this;


    while ( currentAncestor != null ) {
    currentAncestor.allChildren.addAll( greatChildren );
    currentAncestor = currentAncestor.parent;
    }
    }

    public boolean supportsXWindowSystem() {


    if ( parent == null ) {
    return false;
    }

    return parent.supportsXWindowSystem();
    }
    }

    http://blog.cedarsoft.com/2010/10/hierarchical-structures-with-java-enums/

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