extended-enum

An extension for TypeScript enums to grant object-oriented powers

Installation

Install via npm or yarn:

# NPM
npm i extended-enum@latest

# Yarn
yarn add extended-enum@latest

Peer dependencies

This project requires [email protected] or higher. Install peer dependencies via:

# NPM
npm i -D typescript@^4.1.2

# Yarn
yarn add -D typescript@^4.1.2

How to use it?

extended-enum exposes a utility function named extend. Simply wrap an enum with extend, then you are ready to go!

import { extend } from 'extended-enum';
// you may import using CommonJS syntax
// const { extend } = require('extended-enum');

enum Animal {
  Bird,
  Cat,
  Dog,
}

// use the utility as follows:
class EAnimal extends extend<typeof Animal, Animal>(Animal) {}

NOTE: you cannot use extend with const enums, which are non-objects in runtime.

What powers does it have?

Basic functionalities

extended enumerations preserves all the functionality of TypeScript enums, such as:

• Reference all the enumerated values using the key. The reference equality is preserved.

// access values using keys
const pet = EAnimal.Cat;
const pets = [EAnimal.Dog];

// reference equality is preserved
expect(EAnimal.Cat === EAnimal.Cat).toBe(true);
expect(EAnimal.Cat === EAnimal.Dog).toBe(false);
expect(EAnimal.Cat !== EAnimal.Dog).toBe(true);

• The enum type itself becomes the union of all the values. The values of enums does not overlap another.

The exhaustive typing of union is not supported yet

function f(animal: EAnimal): void {
  // Produces type error:
  // This condition will always return 'false' since the types 'EAnimal.Cat' and 'EAnimal.Dog' have no overlap.
  if (animal.is(EAnimal.Cat) && animal.is(EAnimal.Dog)) {
    type T1 = typeof animal; // never
  }
}

function g(animal: EAnimal): void {
  switch (animal) {
    case EAnimal.Bird:
      ...
      break
    case EAnimal.Cat:
      ...
      break
    case EAnimal.Dog:
      ...
      break
    default:
      // TypeScript compiler detects it is unreachable here
      type T2 = typeof animal; // never
}

• Reverse mapping of values to keys are preserved.

In native enums, reverse mapping from the values to the keys is supported:

enum Animal {
  Cat,
  Dog,
}

expect(Animal[Animal.Cat]).toBe('Cat');
expect(Animal[Aniaml.Dog]).toBe('Dog');

extended enum is not an indexable type (in JS, only number, string, symbol types can be used to index an object). Thus, extended enum provides a similar indexing method to access keys from the values.

enum Animal { Cat, Dog }

class EAnimal extends extend<typeof Animal, Animal>(Animal) {}

/* use "keyOf" method to access keys */
expect(EAnimal.keyOf(EAnimal.Cat)).toBe('Cat');
expect(EAnimal.keyOf(EAnimal.Dog)).toBe('Dog');

Serialization and Deserialization

from provides a way to parse a primitive value (string or number) into one of the enumerated value.

It is safely typed, so if the given primitive does not match one of the defined primitive, it returns undefined.

expect(EAnimal.from(0)).toBe(EAnimal.Bird);
expect(EAnimal.from(1)).toBe(EAnimal.Cat);

// an undefined primitive
expect(EAnimal.from(-1)).toBe(undefined);

Or, parse using the fallback value:

expect(EAnimal.from(-1, Animal.Dog)).toBe(EAnimal.Dog);

Iterations

extended enumerations provide iterables of defined keys and values.

for (const animal of EAnimal) {
  // animal := EAnimal.Bird, EAnimal.Cat, EAnimal.Dog in each loop 
}

for (const key of EAnimal.keys()) {
  // key := 'Bird', 'Cat', 'Dog' in each loop
}

expect([...EAnimal.entries()])
  .toEqual([
    [ 'Bird', EAnimal.Bird ],
    [ 'Cat',  EAnimal.Cat  ],
    [ 'Dog',  EAnimal.Dog  ],
  ]);

Matches

extended enumerations provide a default method named is. is is aware of the primitives defining the enumeration.

enum Fruit {
  Apple = 'APPLE',
  Orange = 'ORANGE',
}
class EFruit extends extend<typeof Fruit, Fruit>(Fruit) {}

// compare using values
expect(EFruit.Apple.is(EFruit.Apple)).toBe(true);
expect(EFruit.Apple.is(EFruit.Orange)).toBe(false);

// compare using primitives
expect(EFruit.Apple.is('APPLE')).toBe(true);
expect(EFruit.Apple.is('apple')).toBe(false);
expect(EFruit.Apple.is('ORANGE')).toBe(false);

match provides a utility for pattern matching. Specify the mappings as you please (defining patterns with keys, values, primitive values are all supported), then the utility will search for the pattern and return the desired mapping.

Mapping multiple patterns to a single value is also supported (see the last example).

declare const fruit: EFruit;

// match using values
fruit.match({
  APPLE: 0,
  ORANGE: 1,
});

// match using keys
fruit.match({
  Apple: 0,
  Orange: 1, 
});

// extended enum values are objects,
// so it cannot be used as object keys.
// hence, defining each case as tuple is provided.
fruit.match([
  [EFruit.Apple, 0],
  [EFruit.Orange, 1],
  [[EFruit.Apple, EFruit.Orange], 2], // matching multiple patterns to a single value
])

Inheriting extended enumerations

Further extending default extended enumeration class is also possible. You may add more methods, or override existing core methods such as is or from to customize the default behavior.

// define the extended interface
interface IPet {
  readonly walks: boolean
}

// you may add more methods to extend enumerations
class EPets extends extend<typeof Animal, Animal, IPet>(Animal) {

  get walks(): boolean {
    return this.isNot(EPets.Bird);
  }

}

EPets.Cat.walks  // true
EPets.Bird.walks // false

API Documentation

See website.

Contribution

Feel free to open issues in GitHub for bug reports or feature requests!

LICENSE

See LICENSE.