create a permission bit mask in java

Question

I want to do something like this:

public enum Permissions
{
    CanBlah1,
    CanBlah2,
    CanBlah3
}

byte[] userPerm = Permissions.CanBlah1 | Permissions.CanBlah2;

// check permssions
//
if(userPerm && Permissions.CanBlah1 == Permissions.CanBlah1)
{
      // do something
}

Can you do this in Java like that? (I'm coming from a c# background)

Answer 1

You can easily do it using EnumSet

import java.util.EnumSet;

import static java.util.EnumSet.of;
import static java.util.EnumSet.range;
import static so.User.Permissions.CanBlah1;
import static so.User.Permissions.CanBlah2;
import static so.User.Permissions.CanBlah3;

public class User {
    public enum Permissions {
        CanBlah1,
        CanBlah2,
        CanBlah3
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        EnumSet<Permissions> userPerms = of(CanBlah1, CanBlah2);
        System.out.println(userPerms.contains(CanBlah1)); //true
        System.out.println(userPerms.contains(CanBlah2)); //true
        System.out.println(userPerms.contains(CanBlah3)); //false
        System.out.println(userPerms.containsAll(of(CanBlah1, CanBlah3))); //false
        System.out.println(userPerms.containsAll(range(CanBlah1, CanBlah2))); //true
        System.out.println(userPerms.containsAll(range(CanBlah1, CanBlah3))); //false
    }

}

Answer 2

This is another option, which is similar to the ordinal solution, except that you can use the | and & operators with this:

 public enum Permissions {
     CanBlah1(1),
     CanBlah2(2),
     CanBlah3(4);

     public int value;

     Permissions(int value) {
         this.value = value;
     }
     public int value() {
      return value;
     }
 }

 public static void main(String[] args) {  
    int userPerm = Permissions.CanBlah1.value() | Permissions.CanBlah2.value();
    // check permssions
    //
    if((userPerm & Permissions.CanBlah1.value()) == Permissions.CanBlah1.value())
    {
        // do something
    }
 }

or:

 public enum Permissions {
         CanBlah1,
         CanBlah2,
         CanBlah3;

         public int value() {
            return 1<<ordinal();
         }
     }

     public static void main(String[] args) {  
        int userPerm = Permissions.CanBlah1.value() | Permissions.CanBlah2.value();
        // check permssions
        //
        if((userPerm & Permissions.CanBlah1.value()) == Permissions.CanBlah1.value())
        {
            // do something
        }
     }