From 48ff999495150056fb7d9a0dc3f59cd7ad343c72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Eder <lukas.eder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 10:53:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [jOOQ/jOOQ#13618] Document EnumType::lookupLiteral's nullable
 result

---
 jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/EnumType.java | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/EnumType.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/EnumType.java
index a3709cffa1..fe2dee41d4 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/EnumType.java
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/EnumType.java
@@ -96,9 +96,10 @@ public interface EnumType {
      * <p>
      * This is similar to {@link Enum#valueOf(Class, String)}, but uses
      * {@link EnumType#getLiteral()} (the database enum value) as a lookup key
-     * instead of {@link Enum#name()} (the generated Java value).
+     * instead of {@link Enum#name()} (the generated Java value), and returns
+     * <code>null</code> if the literal wasn't found.
      */
-    static <E extends Enum<E> & EnumType> E lookupLiteral(Class<E> enumType, String literal) {
+    static <E extends Enum<E> & EnumType> @Nullable E lookupLiteral(Class<E> enumType, String literal) {
         return EnumTypes.lookupLiteral(enumType, literal);
     }
 }