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Issues With Enum

 
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Hello
I have a ten enum. One of them is as below:


And for the ten enum classes I have ten other classes in which each of one used.
One of them is as below :




Now I have a Super class and all my ten classes extends to this super class :

// Super Class


I dont want to add getData method to each in every my suclass for getting data.So I want that in any way I can return the enum to super class and in super class I use for over enum.values();
But I didnt find a way to return a enum from a method.
May be this is not poosible.So please help me out
 
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An enum is a type, so you cannot return it like this. You can only return a concrete implementation of it. You could return the values instead :

And use return Type.values() in your concrete classes.
 
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Note that covariant return values are allowed. So if the abstract super class method returns Enum[] the concrete subclass can return Type[].
 
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