Check if a value is in an enum

General Usage
1

Hello,

I have an enum like

julia> @enum Fruit apple=1 orange=2 kiwi=3

I can check that apple is a Fruit

julia> apple isa Fruit
true

But can’t check if 3 is an “allowed” value (ie a value which is used by this enum)

julia> 4 isa Fruit
false

julia> 3 isa Fruit
false

I tried 3 in Fruit or 3 in keys(Fruit) but enum are not iterable.

I haven’t dive into Enum internals… but maybe someone here can help.

(and docstring could probably be improved)

Kind regards

2

You could use the instances function.

For example, you can define

const fruitvals = Set(Int(f) for f in instances(Fruit))

and then do

julia> 3 in fruitvals
true

julia> 17 in fruitvals
false
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3

If you need something generic, the only real way I can see is the ugly

julia> function ismember(enum::Type{T}, v::Int) where T<:Enum
           try
               T(v)
               return true
           catch
               return false
           end
       end
ismember (generic function with 1 method)

julia> @enum Fruit apple=1 orange=2 kiwi=3

julia> ismember(Fruit, 1)
true

julia> ismember(Fruit, 4)
false

The list of available values (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/29b47b8a10397324a820717af655cb0ee1d7f023/base/Enums.jl#L133) is not easily available (edit: nvm, see below).

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You can also use the undocumented internal function Base.Enums.namemap:

julia> 4 in keys(Base.Enums.namemap(Fruit))
false

and there are also the typemin and typemax functions to get the minimum and maximum allowed values:

julia> Int.((typemin(Fruit), typemax(Fruit)))
(1, 3)