I'm not convinced we need it, but it was put there to make Level as close to a real enum as possible. Every enum provides that static method (by way of extending Enum).
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On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:28 AM, Gary Gregory wrote:
> Why do we have this API in org.apache.logging.log4j.Level:
>
> public static <T extends Enum<T>> T valueOf(Class<T> enumType, String
> name) {
> return Enum.valueOf(enumType, name);
> }
>
> ?
>
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