Assigning enum value to variable from enum name

Working with utilities there are alot of file exchanges - alot.

Today  we got a strange case though. In a file we receive a value that represents the name of a enum value, e.g. E17. The label of the enum value is Consumption, so we wanted to assign the value to a field value in a given table, so this is what we came up with

    // must assign Consupmtion and not E17

    JournalConnection     journalConnection;

    str                   typeOfMeteringPoint = "E17";

   

    SysDictEnum             dictEnum    = new SysDictEnum(enumNum(ConnectionTypes));

    ;

   

    journalConnection.type = dictEnum.symbol2Value(typeOfMeteringPoint);

we also came up with this one where we inserted the option of a small if-statement to check if the name of the enum value is found on the enum:

    

    JournalConnection           journalConnection;

    ConnectionTypes             connectionTypes;

    str                         typeOfMeteringPoint = "E17";

   

    SysDictEnum             dictEnum    = new SysDictEnum(enumNum(ConnectionTypes));

    Counter                 values      = dictEnum.values();

    int                     idx;

    ;

   

    for(idx = 0; idx< values ;idx++)

    {   

        if(typeOfMeteringPoint == dictEnum.index2Symbol(idx))

        {

            journalConnection.type = str2enum(ConnectionTypes,dictEnum.index2Name(idx));

        }

    }