From 01c1beaa5503536319154d8e1b4d451466f145dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Pirat <pirat.victor@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 09:41:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Handle String to Enum conversion (when Java Enums are stored
 as Strings in the database).

---
 jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/tools/Convert.java | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/tools/Convert.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/tools/Convert.java
index b71b81c631..be5fe116c1 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/tools/Convert.java
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/tools/Convert.java
@@ -516,6 +516,14 @@ public final class Convert {
                 else if ((fromClass == Long.class || fromClass == long.class) && java.util.Date.class.isAssignableFrom(toClass)) {
                     return toDate((Long) from, toClass);
                 }
+
+                else if ((fromClass == String.class) && java.lang.Enum.class.isAssignableFrom(toClass)) {
+                    try {
+                        return java.lang.Enum.valueOf(toClass, (String) from);
+                    } catch (java.lang.IllegalArgumentException e) {
+                        throw fail(from, toClass);
+                    }
+                }
             }
 
             throw fail(from, toClass);