Enum ThaiBuddhistEra

public enum ThaiBuddhistEra
extends Enum<ThaiBuddhistEra>
implements Era

An era in the Thai Buddhist calendar system.

The Thai Buddhist calendar system has two eras. The current era, for years from 1 onwards, is known as the 'Buddhist' era. All previous years, zero or earlier in the proleptic count or one and greater in the year-of-era count, are part of the 'Before Buddhist' era.

year-of-era	era	proleptic-year	ISO proleptic-year
2	BE	2	-542
1	BE	1	-543
1	BEFORE_BE	0	-544
2	BEFORE_BE	-1	-545

Do not use ordinal() to obtain the numeric representation of ThaiBuddhistEra. Use getValue() instead.

Enum Constants

BEFORE_BE

public static final ThaiBuddhistEra BEFORE_BE

The singleton instance for the era before the current one, 'Before Buddhist Era', which has the numeric value 0.

BE

public static final ThaiBuddhistEra BE

The singleton instance for the current era, 'Buddhist Era', which has the numeric value 1.

Methods

values

public static ThaiBuddhistEra[] values()

Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared. This method may be used to iterate over the constants as follows:

for (ThaiBuddhistEra c : ThaiBuddhistEra.values())
    System.out.println(c);

Returns:

an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared

valueOf

public static ThaiBuddhistEra valueOf(String name)

Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)

Parameters:

name - the name of the enum constant to be returned.

Returns:

the enum constant with the specified name

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if this enum type has no constant with the specified name

NullPointerException - if the argument is null

of

public static ThaiBuddhistEra of(int thaiBuddhistEra)

Parameters:

thaiBuddhistEra - the era to represent, from 0 to 1

Returns:

the BuddhistEra singleton, never null

Throws:

DateTimeException - if the era is invalid

getValue

public int getValue()

Specified by:

getValue in interface Era

Returns:

the era value, from 0 (BEFORE_BE) to 1 (BE)