# Enumer [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/dmarkham/enumer?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/dmarkham/enumer) [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/dmarkham/enumer)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/dmarkham/enumer) [![GitHub Release](https://img.shields.io/github/release/dmarkham/enumer.svg)](https://github.com/dmarkham/enumer/releases) Enumer is a tool to generate Go code that adds useful methods to Go enums (constants with a specific type). It started as a fork of [Rob Pike’s Stringer tool](https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer) maintained by [Álvaro López Espinosa](https://github.com/alvaroloes/enumer). This was again forked here as (https://github.com/dmarkham/enumer) picking up where Álvaro left off. ``` $ enumer --help Enumer is a tool to generate Go code that adds useful methods to Go enums (constants with a specific type). Usage of enumer: Enumer [flags] -type T [directory] Enumer [flags] -type T files... # Must be a single package For more information, see: http://godoc.org/github.com/dmarkham/enumer Flags: -addprefix string transform each item name by adding a prefix. Default: "" -comment value comments to include in generated code, can repeat. Default: "" -gqlgen if true, GraphQL marshaling methods for gqlgen will be generated. Default: false -json if true, json marshaling methods will be generated. Default: false -linecomment use line comment text as printed text when present -output string output file name; default srcdir/_string.go -sql if true, the Scanner and Valuer interface will be implemented. -text if true, text marshaling methods will be generated. Default: false -transform string enum item name transformation method. Default: noop (default "noop") -trimprefix string transform each item name by removing a prefix or comma separated list of prefixes. Default: "" -type string comma-separated list of type names; must be set -values if true, alternative string values method will be generated. Default: false -yaml if true, yaml marshaling methods will be generated. Default: false ``` ## Generated functions and methods When Enumer is applied to a type, it will generate: - The following basic methods/functions: - Method `String()`: returns the string representation of the enum value. This makes the enum conform the `Stringer` interface, so whenever you print an enum value, you'll get the string name instead of a number. - Function `String(s string)`: returns the enum value from its string representation. This is useful when you need to read enum values from command line arguments, from a configuration file, or from a REST API request... In short, from those places where using the real enum value (an integer) would be almost meaningless or hard to trace or use by a human. `s` string is Case Insensitive. - Function `Values()`: returns a slice with all the values of the enum - Function `Strings()`: returns a slice with all the Strings of the enum - Method `IsA()`: returns true only if the current value is among the values of the enum. Useful for validations. - When the flag `json` is provided, two additional methods will be generated, `MarshalJSON()` and `UnmarshalJSON()`. These make the enum conform to the `json.Marshaler` and `json.Unmarshaler` interfaces. Very useful to use it in JSON APIs. - When the flag `text` is provided, two additional methods will be generated, `MarshalText()` and `UnmarshalText()`. These make the enum conform to the `encoding.TextMarshaler` and `encoding.TextUnmarshaler` interfaces. **Note:** If you use your enum values as keys in a map and you encode the map as _JSON_, you need this flag set to true to properly convert the map keys to json (strings). If not, the numeric values will be used instead - When the flag `yaml` is provided, two additional methods will be generated, `MarshalYAML()` and `UnmarshalYAML()`. These make the enum conform to the `gopkg.in/yaml.v2.Marshaler` and `gopkg.in/yaml.v2.Unmarshaler` interfaces. - When the flag `sql` is provided, the methods for implementing the `Scanner` and `Valuer` interfaces. Useful when storing the enum in a database. For example, if we have an enum type called `Pill`, ```go type Pill int const ( Placebo Pill = iota Aspirin Ibuprofen Paracetamol Acetaminophen = Paracetamol ) ``` executing `enumer -type=Pill -json` will generate a new file with four basic methods and two extra for JSON: ```go func (i Pill) String() string { //... } func PillString(s string) (Pill, error) { //... } func PillValues() []Pill { //... } func PillStrings() []string { //... } func (i Pill) IsAPill() bool { //... } func (i Pill) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) { //... } func (i *Pill) UnmarshalJSON(data []byte) error { //... } ``` From now on, we can: ```go // Convert any Pill value to string var aspirinString string = Aspirin.String() // (or use it in any place where a Stringer is accepted) fmt.Println("I need ", Paracetamol) // Will print "I need Paracetamol" // Convert a string with the enum name to the corresponding enum value pill, err := PillString("Ibuprofen") // "ibuprofen" will also work. if err != nil { fmt.Println("Unrecognized pill: ", err) return } // Now pill == Ibuprofen // Get all the values of the string allPills := PillValues() fmt.Println(allPills) // Will print [Placebo Aspirin Ibuprofen Paracetamol] // Check if a value belongs to the Pill enum values var notAPill Pill = 42 if (notAPill.IsAPill()) { fmt.Println(notAPill, "is not a value of the Pill enum") } // Marshal/unmarshal to/from json strings, either directly or automatically when // the enum is a field of a struct pillJSON := Aspirin.MarshalJSON() // Now pillJSON == `"Aspirin"` ``` The generated code is exactly the same as the Stringer tool plus the mentioned additions, so you can use **Enumer** where you are already using **Stringer** without any code change. ## Transforming the string representation of the enum value By default, Enumer uses the same name of the enum value for generating the string representation (usually CamelCase in Go). ```go type MyType int ... name := MyTypeValue.String() // name => "MyTypeValue" ``` Sometimes you need to use some other string representation format than CamelCase (i.e. in JSON). To transform it from CamelCase to another format, you can use the `transform` flag. For example, the command `enumer -type=MyType -json -transform=snake` would generate the following string representation: ```go name := MyTypeValue.String() // name => "my_type_value" ``` **Note**: The transformation only works from CamelCase to snake_case or kebab-case, not the other way around. ### Transformers - snake - snake-upper - kebab - kebab-upper - lower (lowercase) - upper (UPPERCASE) - title (TitleCase) - title-lower (titleCase) - first (Use first character of string) - first-lower (same as first only lower case) - first-upper (same as first only upper case) - whitespace ## How to use For a module-aware repo with `enumer` in the `go.mod` file, generation can be called by adding the following to a `.go` source file: ```golang //go:generate go run github.com/dmarkham/enumer -type=YOURTYPE ``` There are four boolean flags: `json`, `text`, `yaml` and `sql`. You can use any combination of them (i.e. `enumer -type=Pill -json -text`), For enum string representation transformation the `transform` and `trimprefix` flags were added (i.e. `enumer -type=MyType -json -transform=snake`). Possible transform values are listed above in the [transformers](#transformers) section. The default value for `transform` flag is `noop` which means no transformation will be performed. If a prefix is provided via the `trimprefix` flag, it will be trimmed from the start of each name (before it is transformed). You can trim multiple prefixes by passing a comma separated list. If a name doesn't have the prefix it will be passed unchanged. If a prefix is provided via the `addprefix` flag, it will be added to the start of each name (after trimming and after transforming). The boolean flag `values` will additionally create an alternative string values method `Values() []string` to fullfill the `EnumValues` interface of [ent](https://entgo.io/docs/schema-fields/#enum-fields). ## Inspiring projects - [Álvaro López Espinosa](https://github.com/alvaroloes/enumer) - [Stringer](https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer) - [jsonenums](https://github.com/campoy/jsonenums)