How to get all possible values of an enum in java? (not knowing the specific Enum)

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I'd like to create a JComboBox that handles the selection of any Enum given to it. For that I need a method to retrieve all the available values of the Enum passed to the JComboBox. As I don't know the specific Enum I can't call EnumType.values(). I could think of some complicated solutions where supported Enums would have to implement some interface I define, but I guess I am missing a simpler, more general solution. What is the way I should go?

score 50 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 15 '12 at 13:06

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Class.getEnumConstants()

edited Apr 15 '12 at 13:06

answered Jul 05 '11 at 17:07

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how about `ENUMClass.values()`? – iamharish15 Apr 11 '18 at 08:58

How to get all possible values of an enum in java? (not knowing the specific Enum)

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