UnitEnum Crate Documentation

The unit-enum crate provides a procedural macro UnitEnum designed to enhance enums in Rust, particularly those consisting of unit variants. This macro simplifies working with such enums by providing useful utility methods.

Features

• name: Retrieve the name of an enum variant.
• ordinal: Retrieve the ordinal of an enum variant, starting from 0.
• from_ordinal: Convert an ordinal back to an enum variant, if possible.
• discriminant: Retrieve the discriminant of an enum variant.
• from_discriminant: Convert a discriminant back to an enum variant.
• len: Get the total number of unit variants in the enum (excluding the "other" variant if present).
• values: Returns an iterator over all unit variants of the enum.

Supported Enum Types

The macro supports two types of enums:

1. Enums with only unit variants
2. Enums with unit variants plus one "other" variant for handling undefined discriminant values

Installation

Add the following to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
unit-enum = "1.4.1"

Quick Start

Basic Usage (Unit Variants Only)

use unit_enum::UnitEnum;

#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, UnitEnum)]
#[repr(i16)]  // Specify the discriminant type (optional, defaults to i32)
enum Color {
    Red = 10,
    Green,     // 11
    Blue = 45654
}

fn main() {
    // Get the name of a variant
    assert_eq!(Color::Blue.name(), "Blue");

    // Get the ordinal (position) of a variant
    assert_eq!(Color::Green.ordinal(), 1);

    // Convert from ordinal back to variant
    assert_eq!(Color::from_ordinal(2), Some(Color::Blue));
    assert_eq!(Color::from_ordinal(4), None);

    // Get the discriminant value (respects the repr type)
    assert_eq!(Color::Blue.discriminant(), 45654);
    assert_eq!(Color::Green.discriminant(), 11);

    // Convert from discriminant back to variant
    assert_eq!(Color::from_discriminant(10), Some(Color::Red));
    assert_eq!(Color::from_discriminant(0), None);

    // Get the total number of unit variants
    assert_eq!(Color::len(), 3);

    // Iterate over all variants
    assert_eq!(
        Color::values().collect::<Vec<_>>(),
        vec![Color::Red, Color::Green, Color::Blue]
    );
}

Usage with "Other" Variant

use unit_enum::UnitEnum;

#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, UnitEnum)]
#[repr(u16)]  // repr attribute is required when using an "other" variant
enum Status {
    Active = 1,
    Inactive = 2,
    #[unit_enum(other)]
    Unknown(u16),  // type must match repr
}

fn main() {
    // from_discriminant always returns a value when "other" variant is present
    assert_eq!(Status::from_discriminant(1), Status::Active);
    assert_eq!(Status::from_discriminant(42), Status::Unknown(42));

    // ordinal treats "other" as the last variant
    assert_eq!(Status::Active.ordinal(), 0);
    assert_eq!(Status::Unknown(42).ordinal(), 2);

    // len returns only the number of unit variants
    assert_eq!(Status::len(), 2);

    // values iterates only over unit variants
    assert_eq!(
        Status::values().collect::<Vec<_>>(),
        vec![Status::Active, Status::Inactive]
    );
}

Discriminant Types

The crate respects the enum's #[repr] attribute to determine the type of discriminant values. Supported types include:

• #[repr(i8)], #[repr(i16)], #[repr(i32)], #[repr(i64)], #[repr(i128)]
• #[repr(u8)], #[repr(u16)], #[repr(u32)], #[repr(u64)], #[repr(u128)]

If no #[repr] attribute is specified, the discriminant type defaults to i32. Note that when using an "other" variant, the #[repr] attribute is required and must match the type of the "other" variant's field.

#[derive(UnitEnum)]
#[repr(u8)]  // Use u8 for discriminants
enum SmallEnum {
    A,  // 0u8
    B,  // 1u8
    C   // 2u8
}

#[derive(UnitEnum)]
#[repr(i64)]  // Use i64 for large discriminants
enum LargeEnum {
    A = -1_000_000,
    B = 5_000_000,
    #[unit_enum(other)]
    Other(i64)  // type matches repr
}

Requirements for "Other" Variant

When using an "other" variant, the following requirements must be met:

• The enum must have a #[repr(type)] attribute
• Only one variant can be marked with #[unit_enum(other)]
• The "other" variant must have exactly one unnamed field matching the repr type
• All other variants must be unit variants

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit pull requests or open issues on our GitHub repository.

License

This project is licensed under either of MIT or Apache-2.0, at your choice.