A way to use custom string values to map enums?

I have an enum like this:

public enum MyEnum {
  DESCRIPTIVE_NAME1("short_code1"),
  DESCRIPTIVE_NAME2("short_code2"),
  ...
  MyEnum(String shortCode) {
     this.shortCode = shortCode;
  }
  ...
  public static MyEnum fromShortCode(String shortCode) {
    // lookup from MyEnum.values() using shortCode
  }
}

And a class with MyEnum field. The corresponding table column holds shortCode values. Is there a way to use MyEnum.fromShortCode() when reading the value from the result set? Right now anything I do doesn’t seem to have an effect and org.simpleflatmapper.converter.impl.CharSequenceToEnumConverter.convert() gets called no matter what. This of course calls java.lang.Enum.valueOf() and mapping fails. I use SFM with JdbcTemplate and tried using both JdbcTemplateMapperFactory.addColumnDefinition() and the ServiceLoader/Converter approach. Any working example on how to achieve this? I imagine this is a fairly common use case, since other libraries like Jackson provide a special way to serialize/deserialize enums not only by their name.

[arnaudroger]

6.6.0 is being release at the minute and should work fine now with springboot devtools.

[arnaudroger]

@neVERberleRfellerER created issue 623 to see if we can support the dev tools reload