Enum and Property file cooperation in Java

Short reminder how to populate Enum in Java with values from property file.

1. Create an Enum as described in example below:

 public enum Users {  
   USER_1, USER_2;  
   private static final String PATH = "/selenium/environment/users.properties";  
   private static Properties properties;  
   private String value;  
   private void init() {  
     if (properties == null) {  
       properties = new Properties();  
       try {  
         properties.load(Users.class.getResourceAsStream(PATH));  
       }  
       catch (Exception e) {  
         e.printStackTrace();  
       }  
     }  
     value = (String) properties.get(this.toString());  
   }  
   public String getValue() {  
     if (value == null) {  
       init();  
     }  
     return value;  
   }  
 }  

Of course it's not an ideal solution and You may come up with better one but this works for me as expected and that's all I need.

2. Create a properties file (short reminder - this file should be placed into resources folder in Your project)

 USER_1=secretlogin1  
 USER_2=secretlogin2  

in this case we have just two entries but You can expand that.

3. Call that from code

 journey.login(Users.USER_1);  

Well it's pretty much it and hopefully this will save me from "googling" next time I'll need such code.