Generic Enums

What is Generic Enums

This is a Java annotation processor to provide Generic Enums. It is basically an attempt to implement the JEP301

Example of generic enum which can be useful if you want to serialize typed parameters:

@GenericEnum
enum Parameters {
    BYTE(byte.class, (byte)0),
    SHORT(short.class, (short)0),
    INT(int.class, 0),
    FLOAT(float.class, 0f),
    LONG(long.class, 0L),
    DOUBLE(double.class, 0d),
    CHAR(char.class, 'a'),
    BOOLEAN(boolean.class, false),
    BOOLEAN_OBJECT(Boolean.class, false),
    STRING(String.class, "");

    private final Class<?> boxClass;
    @GenericEnumParam
    private final Object defaultValue;

    Parameters(Class<?> boxClass, @GenericEnumParam Object defaultValue) {
       this.boxClass = boxClass;
       this.defaultValue = defaultValue;
    }

    @GenericEnumParam
    public Object getDefaultValue() {
        return defaultValue;
    }
}

The annotation processor will generate a class ParametersExt by default.

Then you can use it this way:

class MyParameterSer {
    int getInt(Parameters<Integer> param) {
        // Use you deserialization mechanism...
    }
    
    void setInt(Parameters<Integer> param, int value) {
        // Use you Serialization mechanism...
    }
    
    // And so on for all supported types
}

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        MyParameterSer parameterSer=new MyParameterSer();
        parameterSer.setInt(ParametersExt.INT, 99);
        parameterSer.setInt(ParametersExt.BOOLEAN, 99); // ends up in a compilation error !
    }
}

You can find other sample here.

Requirements

Generic Enums requires Java 1.8 or later.

Using Generic Enums

Maven

...
<properties>
    <generic.enums.version>0.4</generic.enums.version>
</properties>
...
<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.github.cmoine</groupId>
        <artifactId>generic-enums-annotations</artifactId>
        <version>${generic.enums.version}</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>
...
<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.8.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <source>1.8</source>
                <target>1.8</target>
                <annotationProcessorPaths>
                    <path>
                        <groupId>io.github.cmoine</groupId>
                        <artifactId>generic-enums-processor</artifactId>
                        <version>${generic.enums.version}</version>
                    </path>
                </annotationProcessorPaths>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>
...

Gradle

dependencies {
    compileOnly "io.github.cmoine:generic-enums-annotations:0.4"
    annotationProcessor "io.github.cmoine:generic-enums-processor:0.4"
}

Licensing

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021 Christophe Moine

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