Enums in Javascript with ES6

Question

I\'m rebuilding an old Java project in Javascript, and realized that there\'s no good way to do enums in JS.

The best I can come up with is:

const C         


        

Answer 1

Here is my implementation of a Java enumeration in JavaScript.

I also included unit tests.

const main = () => {
  mocha.setup('bdd')
  chai.should()

  describe('Test Color [From Array]', function() {
    let Color = new Enum('RED', 'BLUE', 'GREEN')
    
    it('Test: Color.values()', () => {
      Color.values().length.should.equal(3)
    })

    it('Test: Color.RED', () => {
      chai.assert.isNotNull(Color.RED)
    })

    it('Test: Color.BLUE', () => {
      chai.assert.isNotNull(Color.BLUE)
    })

    it('Test: Color.GREEN', () => {
      chai.assert.isNotNull(Color.GREEN)
    })

    it('Test: Color.YELLOW', () => {
      chai.assert.isUndefined(Color.YELLOW)
    })
  })

  describe('Test Color [From Object]', function() {
    let Color = new Enum({
      RED   : { hex: '#F00' },
      BLUE  : { hex: '#0F0' },
      GREEN : { hex: '#00F' }
    })

    it('Test: Color.values()', () => {
      Color.values().length.should.equal(3)
    })

    it('Test: Color.RED', () => {
      let red = Color.RED
      chai.assert.isNotNull(red)
      red.getHex().should.equal('#F00')
    })

    it('Test: Color.BLUE', () => {
      let blue = Color.BLUE
      chai.assert.isNotNull(blue)
      blue.getHex().should.equal('#0F0')
    })

    it('Test: Color.GREEN', () => {
      let green = Color.GREEN
      chai.assert.isNotNull(green)
      green.getHex().should.equal('#00F')
    })

    it('Test: Color.YELLOW', () => {
      let yellow = Color.YELLOW
      chai.assert.isUndefined(yellow)
    })
  })

  mocha.run()
}

class Enum {
  constructor(values) {
    this.__values = []
    let isObject = arguments.length === 1
    let args = isObject ? Object.keys(values) : [...arguments]
    args.forEach((name, index) => {
      this.__createValue(name, isObject ? values[name] : null, index)
    })
    Object.freeze(this)
  }

  values() {
    return this.__values
  }

  /* @private */
  __createValue(name, props, index) {
    let value = new Object()
    value.__defineGetter__('name', function() {
      return Symbol(name)
    })
    value.__defineGetter__('ordinal', function() {
      return index
    })
    if (props) {
      Object.keys(props).forEach(prop => {
        value.__defineGetter__(prop, function() {
          return props[prop]
        })
        value.__proto__['get' + this.__capitalize(prop)] = function() {
          return this[prop]
        }
      })
    }
    Object.defineProperty(this, name, {
      value: Object.freeze(value),
      writable: false
    })
    this.__values.push(this[name])
  }

  /* @private */
  __capitalize(str) {
    return str.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + str.slice(1)
  }
}

main()

.as-console-wrapper {
  top: 0;
  max-height: 100% !important;
}