3 basic, cardinal, elementary, fundamental, key, primary, rudimentary. adv. 4 at the beginning, at the outset, before all else, beforehand, firstly, initially, in the first place, to begin with, to start with. n. 5 as in from the first beginning, commencement, inception, introduction, outset, start, starting point, word go (informal) first-class.
Next we define the enum, which we want to serialize and deserialize to JSON. And then we'll define the class, that uses the SampleEnum. The trick is to use a string as a private property and override its getter and setter, so that: 1  The getter returns the name of the enum value when serializing it.
âYou could also include valueOf() method of enum in java which is added by compiler in any enum along with values() method. Enum valueOf() is a static method which takes a string argument and can be used to convert a String into enum.