The proper way to look up an enum by value

Question

I have several Java enums that looks something like below (edited for confidentiality, etc). In each case, I have a lookup method that I'm really not satisfied with; in the example below, it is findByChannelCode.

public enum PresentationChannel {
    ChannelA("A"),
    ChannelB("B"),
    ChannelC("C"),
    ChannelD("D"),
    ChannelE("E");

    private String channelCode;

    PresentationChannel(String channelCode) {
        this.channelCode = channelCode;
    }

    public String getChannelCode() {
        return this.channelCode;
    }

    public PresentationChannel findByChannelCode(String channelCode) {
        if (channelCode != null) {
            for (PresentationChannel presentationChannel : PresentationChannel.values()) {
                if (channelCode.equals(presentationChannel.getChannelCode())) {
                    return presentationChannel;
                }
            }
        }

        return null;
    }
}

The problem is, I feel silly doing these linear lookups when I could just be using a HashMap<String, PresentationChannel>. So I thought of the solution below, but it's a little messier that I would hope and, more to the point, I didn't care to re-invent the wheel when surely someone else has come across this. I wanted to get some of the sage wisdom of this group: what is the proper way to index an enum by value?

My solution:

ImmutableMap<String, PresentationChannel> enumMap = Maps.uniqueIndex(ImmutableList.copyOf(PresentationChannel.values()), new Function<PresentationChannel, String>() {
        public String apply(PresentationChannel input) {
            return input.getChannelCode();
        }});

and, in the enum:

public static PresentationChannel findByChannelCode(String channelCode) {
     return enumMap.get(channelCode);
}

Answer 1

I think you're using non-JDK classes here right?

A similar solution with JDK API:

private static final Map<String, PresentationChannel> channels = new HashMap<String, PresentationChannel>();

static{
  for (PresentationChannel channel : values()){
    channels.put(channel.getChannelCode(), channel);
  }
}