List MySQL enum in Java

Question

Is there a way to get all possible values from a MySQL enum column?

The MySQL documentation says the MySQL enum type is returned as a Java String, so I basically would like a way to get all possible strings I can pass when querying a table with such an enum.

I couldn't immediately find anything when I was looking through the metadata returned for such a column, but since enum isn't standard SQL, I'm not sure it's even possible... any suggestions?

Answer 1

SHOW COLUMNS FROM Table LIKE field returns something like: enum('value1','value2','value3','value4'). Parse out the enum values from the string with a regular expression ("/'(.*?)'/").