# Enum Class AccessMode

java.lang.Object
java.lang.Enum<AccessMode>
java.nio.file.AccessMode

All Implemented Interfaces:
  `Serializable, Comparable<AccessMode>, Constable`

public enum AccessMode extends Enum<AccessMode>
Defines access modes used to test the accessibility of a file.

Since:
  1.7

- ## Nested Class Summary

  ### Nested classes/interfaces declared in class Enum

  `Enum.EnumDesc<E>`

- ## Enum Constant Summary

  Enum Constants
  Enum Constant
  Description
  `EXECUTE`
  Test execute access.
  `READ`
  Test read access.
  `WRITE`
  Test write access.

- ## Method Summary

  Modifier and Type
  Method
  Description
  `static AccessMode`
  `valueOf(String name)`
  Returns the enum constant of this class with the specified name.
  `static AccessMode[]`
  `values()`
  Returns an array containing the constants of this enum class, in the order they are declared.

  ### Methods declared in class Enum

  `clone, compareTo, describeConstable, equals, finalize, getDeclaringClass, hashCode, name, ordinal, toString, valueOf`

  ### Methods declared in class Object

  `getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait`

- ## Enum Constant Details

  - ### READ

    public static final AccessMode READ
    Test read access.

  - ### WRITE

    public static final AccessMode WRITE
    Test write access.

  - ### EXECUTE

    public static final AccessMode EXECUTE
    Test execute access.

- ## Method Details

  - ### values

    public static AccessMode[] values()
    Returns an array containing the constants of this enum class, in the order they are declared.
    Returns:
      an array containing the constants of this enum class, in the order they are declared

  - ### valueOf

    public static AccessMode valueOf(String name)
    Returns the enum constant of this class with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this class. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)
    Parameters:
      `name` - the name of the enum constant to be returned.
    Returns:
      the enum constant with the specified name
    Throws:
      `IllegalArgumentException` - if this enum class has no constant with the specified name
      `NullPointerException` - if the argument is null