How can I print all thread states?

The following code works fine but i am having trouble working with the Enum that is returned from getState(). In the following i guess the Enum returned will always contain just one element since a thread can only be in one state at a time.

Code:

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public static void ThreadState(Thread t){
 Enum e = t.getState();
 System.out.println(t.getName() + " is " + e.name());
}

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but how can i print out all the states? Enum defines

Code:

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static Thread.State[] values()

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I have the following......

Code:

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Enum e = t.getState();
Thread.State[] ts = e.values();

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t is simply a Thread instance but the compiler says that e has no values() method.

Got it but a bit confused. If getState() is supposed to return an Enum of thread states then how is it possible to assign the Enum to a single Thread.State? Is it because a thread can only be in a single state at a time?

Code:

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Thread t = new Thread();
Thread.State e = t.getState();
Thread.State[] ts = e.values();
for(int i = 0; i < ts.length; i++){
 System.out.println(ts[i]);
}

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