Java enum reverse look-up best practice

Maps.uniqueIndex from Google’s Guava is quite handy for building lookup maps.

Update: Here is an example using Maps.uniqueIndex with Java 8:

public enum MyEnum {
    A(0), B(1), C(2);

    private static final Map<Integer, MyEnum> LOOKUP = Maps.uniqueIndex(
                Arrays.asList(MyEnum.values()),
                MyEnum::getStatus
    );    

    private final int status;

    MyEnum(int status) {
        this.status = status;
    }

    public int getStatus() {
        return status;
    }

    @Nullable
    public static MyEnum fromStatus(int status) {
        return LOOKUP.get(status);
    }
}

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