Refactored Gender Enum to Include 'Other' Genders

megamek/src/megamek/common/enums/Gender.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (C) 2020 - The MegaMek Team. All Rights Reserved
+ * Copyright (C) 2020-2024 - The MegaMek Team. All Rights Reserved
  *
  * MegaMek is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -23,15 +23,19 @@
 import java.util.List;
 
 /**
- * Author's Note: This is for Biological Gender (strictly speaking, the term is Sex) only,
- * with the two OTHER-? flags being implemented here for MekHQ usage.
+ * In this context, sex relates to the character's capacity to incubate offspring.
+ * While this is a very limited view of the broad spectrum of human genders,
+ * the needs of programming dictate that we need to take a more binary view of things.
+ * To this end, males can't birth children, females can.
+ * 'Other' genders are used for characters that fall outside the gender binary,
+ * with the sex following 'other' determining their capacity to birth children.
  */
 public enum Gender {
     //region Enum Declarations
     MALE(false, "Male"),
     FEMALE(false, "Female"),
-    OTHER_MALE(true, "Male"),
-    OTHER_FEMALE(true, "Female"),
+    OTHER_MALE(true, "Other (M)"),
+    OTHER_FEMALE(true, "Other (F)"),
     RANDOMIZE(true);
     //endregion Enum Declarations
 
@@ -53,14 +57,14 @@ public enum Gender {
 
     //region Boolean Checks
     /**
-     * @return true is the person's biological gender is male, otherwise false
+     * @return true if the person's biological gender is male, otherwise false
      */
     public boolean isMale() {
         return (this == MALE) || (this == OTHER_MALE);
     }
 
     /**
-     * @return true is the person's biological gender is female, otherwise false
+     * @return true if the person's biological gender is female, otherwise false
      */
     public boolean isFemale() {
         return (this == FEMALE) || (this == OTHER_FEMALE);
@@ -123,21 +127,19 @@ public static Gender parseFromString(String input) {
         }
 
         try {
-            switch (Integer.parseInt(input)) {
-                case 0:
-                    return MALE;
-                case 1:
-                    return FEMALE;
-                case -1:
-                default:
-                    return RandomGenderGenerator.generate();
-            }
+            return switch (Integer.parseInt(input)) {
+                case 0 -> MALE;
+                case 1 -> FEMALE;
+                case 2 -> OTHER_MALE;
+                case 3 -> OTHER_FEMALE;
+                default -> RandomGenderGenerator.generate();
+            };
         } catch (Exception ignored) {
 
         }
 
-        LogManager.getLogger().error("Failed to parse the gender value from input String " + input
-                        + ". Returning a newly generated gender.");
+        LogManager.getLogger().error("Failed to parse the gender value from input String {}. Returning a newly generated gender.",
+                input);
         return RandomGenderGenerator.generate();
     }