Question about determining Entity Type

I have a work system I'm developing for my server where some types of creatures killed can reward work credit. The problem I'm having is that I'd like to store list list of creatures for each work type in a Map, but I can't find a way to easily represent different Entity types in a list like that. Anyone have any insights or ideas?

 

Do you mean the enum EntityType?

 

It sounds like an Enum would be what you are looking for. With Enums in Java you can have method calls with them, so your program could have an Enum that looks something like:

Code:java

public enum EntityPoints {
  int points;
 
  ZOMBIE(5),
  CREEPER(10),
  // other entities
 
  public EntityPoints(int points) {
    this.points = points;
  }
 
  public int getPoints() {
    return points;
  }
}

And then that way you can just simply get the amount of points for an Entity like this:

Code:java

public int getPoints(EntityPoints entity) {
  return entity.getPoints();
}

 

This is exactly what I was looking for.

Another good way to do it Thanks