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