[Solved] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No enum constant


Pre-requisite :  Java : Enumeration Handling

Below is example of enumeration by using all implicit methods of enumeration.
Here used wrong value of enumeration as “Saturday” while using month name here that’s why causing this issue.

package enm;

public class EnumTest {

	enum Month{JANNUARY,FEBRUARY,MARCH,APRIL,MAY,JUNE,JULY,AUGUST,SEPTEMBER,OCTOBER,NOVEMBER,DECEMBER};
	enum MonthDetail{
		JANNUARY("January",1),
		FEBRUARY("February",2),
		MARCH("March",3),
		APRIL("April",4),
		MAY("May",5),
		JUNE("June",6),
		JULY("July",7),
		AUGUST("August",8),
		SEPTEMBER("September",9),
		OCTOBER("October",10),
		NOVEMBER("November",11),
		DECEMBER("December",12);

		public String monthName="";
		public int index;

		//Constructor will always private
		private MonthDetail(String monthName,int index)
		{
			this.monthName=monthName;
			this.index=index;
		}
		//Method
		public void showMonthDetail()
		{
			System.out.println(this.index +" : "+this.monthName);
		}
	};
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		for(Month month:Month.values())
		{
	    //Add one because by default enum indexing start from 0
		System.out.println((month.ordinal()+1) +" : "+month.name());
		}
		//Every enum Class provide values method to get list of enums
		for(MonthDetail monthDetail:MonthDetail.values())
		{
			monthDetail.showMonthDetail();
		}

		try
		{
		MonthDetail mnth=MonthDetail.valueOf("Saturday");
		}
		catch(Exception ex)
		{
			ex.printStackTrace();
		}

	}

}

Output


1 : JANNUARY
2 : FEBRUARY
3 : MARCH
4 : APRIL
5 : MAY
6 : JUNE
7 : JULY
8 : AUGUST
9 : SEPTEMBER
10 : OCTOBER
11 : NOVEMBER
12 : DECEMBER
1 : January
2 : February
3 : March
4 : April
5 : May
6 : June
7 : July
8 : August
9 : September
10 : October
11 : November
12 : December
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No enum constant enm.EnumTest.MonthDetail.Saturday
    at java.lang.Enum.valueOf(Enum.java:238)
    at enm.EnumTest$MonthDetail.valueOf(EnumTest.java:1)
    at enm.EnumTest.main(EnumTest.java:49)

Solutions:
Always use valid constant values to resolve this issue and while trying to call this enum.valueOf() method always handle exception so that any exception happen then your program will not terminate.

try {
 MonthDetail mnth=MonthDetail.valueOf("August");
} catch(Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}

To learn more on Enumeration follow below link: Java : Enumeration Handling

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