understanding J2SE 5.0 Enum

[Vinnie Jenks]

I'm coming from the C# world where I can write an enumerated type like so:

public final enum QueryType
{
STORED_PROCEDURE,
RAW_STATEMENT
}

...and then call it from another class like so, and it would work:

if (paramQuerytype == QueryType.STORED_PROCEDURE)
  return true;

However, I get an error (Eclipse) telling me "QueryType.STORED_PROCEDURE cannot be resolved". Code-hinting reveals that I all have available to me from the QueryType type is "QueryType.class" and "QueryType.this"...both of which don't make any sense to me.

I'm expecting to be able to call the enum values in a static fashion but I can't!?

I have an import reference to it, that's not the problem...

Documentation on the net is dirt poor and I can't find one good solid example.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks!

[R�mi Forax]

It's an eclipse bug !

for now, eclipse (3.1M2) doesn't understand enum correctly.

[Vinnie Jenks]

You've gotta be kidding me!?

Is there a fix yet? A newer version than M2 w/ an update to this problem?

[Vinnie Jenks]

So, obviously eclipse has the same problem w/ "VarArgs"?

This should be correct yet eclipse is telling me it's a no-no.

public void setQuery(String value, String... params)
{
this._query = value + " (";

for (String p : params) //line w/ error in Eclipse!
this._query += "'" + p + "'";

this._query += ");";
}

Eclipse says:

Can only iterate over an array or an instance of java.lang.Iterable

According to the Java book I bought, this should work...

[Nigel Browne]

This is always a problem when using features that are new to the latest release of a language. The version of Eclipse you are using is compling your code with the 1.4 compiler and you are using 1.5 features. If you have Ant installed, you can get around this by writting a build script that defines which compiler to use and run the Ant script from Eclipse.

[Ilja Preuss]

Originally posted by R�mi Forax:
It's an eclipse bug !

Actually it's not a bug - it's work in progress.