How can I lookup a Java enum from its String value?

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Use the valueOf method which is automatically created for each Enum.

Verbosity.valueOf("BRIEF") == Verbosity.BRIEF

For arbitrary values start with:

public static Verbosity findByAbbr(String abbr){
    for(Verbosity v : values()){
        if( v.abbr().equals(abbr)){
            return v;
        }
    }
    return null;
}

Only move on later to Map implementation if your profiler tells you to.

I know it’s iterating over all the values, but with only 3 enum values it’s hardly worth any other effort, in fact unless you have a lot of values I wouldn’t bother with a Map it’ll be fast enough.

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