How to define a non-ordinal enum in Kotlin?
KotlinEnumsKotlin Problem Overview
I want to define an enum that values are not ordinal, for example:
enum class States(value: Int) {
STATE_A(4),
STATE_B(5),
STATE_C(7),
STATE_D(12)
}
How can I get the value of each item? For instance States.STATE_C should return 7.
Kotlin Solutions
Solution 1 - Kotlin
You should define value
as property (val
) not as constructor parameter. After that it becomes accessible:
enum class States(val value: Int) {
STATE_A(1),
STATE_B(2),
STATE_C(3),
STATE_D(4)
}
...
println(States.STATE_C.value) // prints 3
Also consider to use ordinal
, which may be suitable in your case:
enum class States {
STATE_A,
STATE_B,
STATE_C,
STATE_D
}
...
println(States.STATE_C.ordinal + 1) // prints 3
If you go with that approach, be careful - any change of States
order can break your code.