Java Enums and Switch Statements – the default case?

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You could always use the Enum with Visitor pattern:

enum Mode {
  on {
      public <E> E accept( ModeVisitor<E> visitor ) {
         return visitor.visitOn();
      }
  },
  off {
      public <E> E accept( ModeVisitor<E> visitor ) {
         return visitor.visitOff();
      }
  },
  standby {
      public <E> E accept( ModeVisitor<E> visitor ) {
         return visitor.visitStandby();
      }
  }

  public abstract <E> E accept( ModeVisitor<E> visitor );

  public interface ModeVisitor<E> {
      E visitOn();
      E visitOff();
      E visitStandby();
  }
}

Then you would implement something like the following:

public final class ModeColorVisitor implements ModeVisitor<Color> {
    public Color visitOn() {
       return getOnColor();
    }

    public Color visitOff() {
       return getOffColor();
    }

    public Color visitStandby() {
       return getStandbyColor();
    }

}

You’d use it as follows:

return model.getMode().accept( new ModeColorVisitor() );

This is a lot more verbose but you’d immediately get a compile error if a new enum was declared.

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