Convert from enum ordinal to enum type

To convert an ordinal into its enum represantation you might want to do this:

ReportTypeEnum value = ReportTypeEnum.values()[ordinal];

Please notice the array bounds.

Note that every call to values() returns a newly cloned array which might impact performance in a negative way. You may want to cache the array if it's going to be called often.

Code example on how to cache values().

_{This answer was edited to include the feedback given inside the comments}

This is almost certainly a bad idea. Certainly if the ordinal is de-facto persisted (e.g. because someone has bookmarked the URL) - it means that you must always preserve the enum ordering in future, which may not be obvious to code maintainers down the line.

Why not encode the enum using myEnumValue.name() (and decode via ReportTypeEnum.valueOf(s)) instead?

You could use a static lookup table:

public enum Suit {
  spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs;

  private static final Map<Integer, Suit> lookup = new HashMap<Integer, Suit>();

  static {
    int ordinal = 0;
    for (Suit suit : EnumSet.allOf(Suit.class)) {
      lookup.put(ordinal, suit);
      ordinal+= 1;
    }
  }

  public Suit fromOrdinal(int ordinal) {
    return lookup.get(ordinal);
  }
}

Safety first (with Kotlin):

// Default to null
EnumName.values().getOrNull(ordinal)

// Default to a value
EnumName.values().getOrElse(ordinal) { EnumName.MyValue }

This is what I do on Android with Proguard:

public enum SomeStatus {
    UNINITIALIZED, STATUS_1, RESERVED_1, STATUS_2, RESERVED_2, STATUS_3;//do not change order

    private static SomeStatus[] values = null;
    public static SomeStatus fromInteger(int i) {
        if(SomeStatus.values == null) {
            SomeStatus.values = SomeStatus.values();
        }
        if (i < 0) return SomeStatus.values[0];
        if (i >= SomeStatus.values.length) return SomeStatus.values[0];
        return SomeStatus.values[i];
    }
}

it's short and I don't need to worry about having an exception in Proguard

You can define a simple method like:

public enum Alphabet{
    A,B,C,D;

    public static Alphabet get(int index){
        return Alphabet.values()[index];
    }
}

And use it like:

System.out.println(Alphabet.get(2));

So one way is to doExampleEnum valueOfOrdinal = ExampleEnum.values()[ordinal]; which works and its easy, however, as mentioned before, ExampleEnum.values() returns a new cloned array for every call. That can be unnecessarily expensive. We can solve that by caching the array like so ExampleEnum[] values = values(). It is also "dangerous" to allow our cached array to be modified. Someone could write ExampleEnum.values[0] = ExampleEnum.type2; So I would make it private with an accessor method that does not do extra copying.

private enum ExampleEnum{
    type0, type1, type2, type3;
    private static final ExampleEnum[] values = values();
    public static ExampleEnum value(int ord) {
        return values[ord];
    }
}

You would use ExampleEnum.value(ordinal) to get the enum value associated with ordinal

There is an Easy and Bad way and there is a fairly easy and right way.

First, the easy and bad (those are usually very popular). Enum class method returns an array of all available instances via the values() method and you can access the enum object via array index.

RenderingMode mode = RenderingMode.values()[index];

//Enum Class somewhere else
public enum RenderingMode
{
    PLAYING,
    PREVIEW,
    VIEW_SOLUTION;    
    
}
    

//RenderingMode.values()[0] will return RenderingMode.PLAYING
//RenderingMode.values()[1] will return RenderingMode.PREVIEW
//Why this is bad? Because it is linked to order of declaration.

//If you later changed the order here, it will impact all your existing logic around this.
public enum RenderingMode
    {
        
        PREVIEW,
        VIEW_SOLUTION,
        PLAYING;    
        
    }
 //Now
//RenderingMode.values()[0] will return RenderingMode.PREVIEW
//RenderingMode.values()[1] will return RenderingMode.VIEW_SOLUTION

Here is the right way to do it. Create a static method fromInt in your enum class.

public enum RenderingMode
{
    PLAYING,
    PREVIEW,
    VIEW_SOLUTION;

    public static RenderingModefromInt(int index)
    {
       //this is independent of order of declaration
        switch (index)
        {
            case 0: return PLAYING;
            case 1: return PREVIEW;
            case 2: return VIEW_SOLUTION;
        }
        //Consider throwing Exception here

        return null;
    }
}

public enum Status {
    STATUS_1, STATUS_2, STATUS_3, STATUS_4;

    public static Status getStatusByOrdinal(int ordinal) {
        for (Status status : values()) {
            if (status.ordinal() == ordinal) {
                return status;
            }
        }
        return STATUS_1;
    }
}