From 29dc14e795f0dee277001fb9d754c4addedc135a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Kennedy <andrew.kennedy@cloudsoftcorp.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:19:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add comment and use better string conversion for enum valueOf
 call

---
 core/src/main/java/brooklyn/util/flags/TypeCoercions.java | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core/src/main/java/brooklyn/util/flags/TypeCoercions.java b/core/src/main/java/brooklyn/util/flags/TypeCoercions.java
index 04e768ea33..52588e44d8 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/brooklyn/util/flags/TypeCoercions.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/brooklyn/util/flags/TypeCoercions.java
@@ -154,8 +154,9 @@ public static <T> T coerce(Object value, TypeToken<T> targetTypeToken) {
             }
         }
 
+        //for enums call valueOf with the string representation of the value
         if (targetType.isEnum()) {
-            T result = (T) stringToEnum((Class<Enum>) targetType, null).apply(value.toString());
+            T result = (T) stringToEnum((Class<Enum>) targetType, null).apply(String.valueOf(value));
             if (result != null) return result;
         }