Select enum constants from boolean[] or bit mask#44
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Use a bit mask to select constants from an enum, based on which indices which are set (1-bits):
Use an array of booleans to select constants from an enum, based on which indices which are
true;Use case
This is obviously a bit esoteric functionality. The intention is to ease the use of some APIs which may (probably for valid performance reasons, at least at the time the APIs were defined) return a kind of bitmask to represent a standardized set of possibly set or unset values.
An example of this is X509Certificate.getKeyUsage(), which returns an array of booleans, where each element's position in the array indicate if a known set of ordered values is
trueorfalse. This will enable e.g. the following:Note on EnumSet
Java already has a way to represent a set of enum constants using a compact and efficient bitmask, but no way to construct the EnumSet using a bitmask as the source.