java 枚举随机,Java：从枚举中选择一个随机值？

If I have an enum like this:

public enum Letter {

A,

B,

C,

//...

}

What is the best way to pick one randomly? It doesn't need to be production quality bulletproof, but a fairly even distribution would be nice.

I could do something like this

private Letter randomLetter() {

int pick = new Random().nextInt(Letter.values().length);

return Letter.values()[pick];

}

But is there a better way? I feel like this is something that's been solved before.

解决方案

The only thing I would suggest is caching the result of values() because each call copies an array. Also, don't create a Random every time. Keep one. Other than that what you're doing is fine. So:

public enum Letter {

A,

B,

C,

//...

private static final List VALUES =

Collections.unmodifiableList(Arrays.asList(values()));

private static final int SIZE = VALUES.size();

private static final Random RANDOM = new Random();

public static Letter randomLetter() {

return VALUES.get(RANDOM.nextInt(SIZE));

}

}