Evaluating Software Design Patterns
— the "Gang of Four" patterns implemented in Java 6

dk.rode.thesis.meta.reflect
Enum Caller.CallerType

java.lang.Object
  extended by java.lang.Enum<Caller.CallerType>
      extended by dk.rode.thesis.meta.reflect.Caller.CallerType
All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable, Comparable<Caller.CallerType>
Enclosing class:
Caller

public static enum Caller.CallerType
extends Enum<Caller.CallerType>

A caller type identifies possible caller contexts a given caller represents.

Author:
Gunni Rode / rode.dk

Enum Constant Summary
CONSTRUCTION
          The calling context represented by the caller is a constructor or an instance initialisation block.
INITIALISATION
          The calling context represented by the caller is a static initialisation block.
INVOCATION
          The calling context represented by the caller is a method, static or otherwise.
 
Method Summary
static Caller.CallerType valueOf(String name)
          Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name.
static Caller.CallerType[] values()
          Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared.
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Enum
clone, compareTo, equals, finalize, getDeclaringClass, hashCode, name, ordinal, toString, valueOf
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait
 

Enum Constant Detail

CONSTRUCTION

public static final Caller.CallerType CONSTRUCTION
The calling context represented by the caller is a constructor or an instance initialisation block.


INITIALISATION

public static final Caller.CallerType INITIALISATION
The calling context represented by the caller is a static initialisation block.


INVOCATION

public static final Caller.CallerType INVOCATION
The calling context represented by the caller is a method, static or otherwise.

Method Detail

valueOf

public static Caller.CallerType valueOf(String name)
Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)

Parameters:
name - the name of the enum constant to be returned.
Returns:
the enum constant with the specified name
Throws:
IllegalArgumentException - if this enum type has no constant with the specified name
NullPointerException - if the argument is null

values

public static Caller.CallerType[] values()
Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared. This method may be used to iterate over the constants as follows:
for (Caller.CallerType c : Caller.CallerType.values())
    System.out.println(c);

Returns:
an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared

Gunni Rode / rode.dk

Feel free to use and/or modify the Java 6 source code developed for this thesis AT YOUR OWN RISK, but note that the source code comes WITHOUT ANY — and I do mean WITHOUT ANY — form of warranty WHAT SO EVER!

The original thesis and source code are available at rode.dk/thesis.