Enum Iteration

[A.Russell]

How do you iterate through an enumeration in Java? I tried the way I would expect from working with C++:

Code:

for( int ix = 1; ix < MyEnum.LastEnum; ix++)
{
  // Do something here
}

I get the error "Cannot cast MyEnum to Int." Isn't an enumeration always a constant integral type? If not, how can I iterate through enumerations?

[shanePreater]

An Enum is strongly typed so, unlike c++, you can't implicitly cast from an enum to an int and vice versa.
To do your loop using the values() static function to get an array of MyEnum objects:

Code:

for(MyEnum myEnum : MyEnum.values()) {
			//Do stuff here!
		}

Hope that sorts you out,
Shane.