Procedural macros to make inter-operation between primitives and enums easier. This crate is no_std compatible.
```rust use num_enum::IntoPrimitive;
enum Number { Zero, One, }
fn main() { let zero: u8 = Number::Zero.into(); assert_eq!(zero, 0u8); } ```
num_enum
's IntoPrimitive
is more type-safe than using as
, because as
will silently truncate - num_enum
only derives From
for exactly the discriminant type of the enum.
```rust use num_enum::TryFromPrimitive; use std::convert::TryFrom;
enum Number { Zero, One, }
fn main() { let zero = Number::tryfrom(0u8); asserteq!(zero, Ok(Number::Zero));
let three = Number::try_from(3u8);
assert_eq!(
three.unwrap_err().to_string(),
"No discriminant in enum `Number` matches the value `3`",
);
} ```
Sometimes a single enum variant might be representable by multiple numeric values.
The #[num_enum(alternatives = [..])]
attribute allows you to define additional value alternatives for individual variants.
(The behavior of IntoPrimitive
is unaffected by this attribute, it will always return the canonical value.)
```rust use num_enum::TryFromPrimitive; use std::convert::TryFrom;
enum Number { Zero = 0, #[num_enum(alternatives = [2])] OneOrTwo = 1, }
fn main() { let zero = Number::tryfrom(0u8); asserteq!(zero, Ok(Number::Zero));
let one = Number::try_from(1u8);
assert_eq!(one, Ok(Number::OneOrTwo));
let two = Number::try_from(2u8);
assert_eq!(two, Ok(Number::OneOrTwo));
let three = Number::try_from(3u8);
assert_eq!(
three.unwrap_err().to_string(),
"No discriminant in enum `Number` matches the value `3`",
);
} ```
Range expressions are also supported for alternatives, but this requires enabling the complex-expressions
feature:
```rust use num_enum::TryFromPrimitive; use std::convert::TryFrom;
enum Number { Zero = 0, #[numenum(alternatives = [2..16])] Some = 1, #[numenum(alternatives = [17, 18..=255])] Many = 16, }
fn main() { let zero = Number::tryfrom(0u8); asserteq!(zero, Ok(Number::Zero));
let some = Number::try_from(15u8);
assert_eq!(some, Ok(Number::Some));
let many = Number::try_from(255u8);
assert_eq!(many, Ok(Number::Many));
} ```
TryFromPrimitive
by default will use num_enum::TryFromPrimitiveError
as its Error
type.
If you want to use a different type, you can use an annotation for this:
```rust use num_enum::TryFromPrimitive;
enum FirstNumber { Zero, One, Two, }
struct CustomError {}
impl CustomError { fn new(value: u8) -> CustomError { CustomError {} } } ```
If your enum has all possible primitive values covered, you can derive FromPrimitive
for it (which auto-implement stdlib's From
):
You can cover all possible values by:
* Having variants for every possible value
* Having a variant marked #[num_enum(default)]
* Having a variant marked #[num_enum(catch_all)]
* Having #[num_enum(alternatives = [...])
s covering values not covered by a variant.
```rust use num_enum::FromPrimitive;
enum Number { Zero, #[num_enum(default)] NonZero, }
fn main() { asserteq!( Number::Zero, Number::from(0u8), ); asserteq!( Number::NonZero, Number::from(1u8), ); } ```
Sometimes it is desirable to have an Other
variant in an enum that acts as a kind of a wildcard matching all the value not yet covered by other variants.
The #[num_enum(default)]
attribute (or the stdlib #[default]
attribute) allows you to mark variant as the default.
(The behavior of IntoPrimitive
is unaffected by this attribute, it will always return the canonical value.)
```rust use num_enum::FromPrimitive; use std::convert::TryFrom;
enum Number { Zero = 0, #[num_enum(default)] NonZero = 1, }
fn main() { let zero = Number::from(0u8); assert_eq!(zero, Number::Zero);
let one = Number::from(1u8);
assert_eq!(one, Number::NonZero);
let two = Number::from(2u8);
assert_eq!(two, Number::NonZero);
} ```
Only FromPrimitive
pays attention to default
attributes, TryFromPrimitive
ignores them.
Sometimes it is desirable to have an Other
variant which holds the otherwise un-matched value as a field.
The #[num_enum(catch_all)]
attribute allows you to mark at most one variant for this purpose. The variant it's applied to must be a tuple variant with exactly one field matching the repr
type.
```rust use num_enum::FromPrimitive; use std::convert::TryFrom;
enum Number { Zero = 0, #[numenum(catchall)] NonZero(u8), }
fn main() { let zero = Number::from(0u8); assert_eq!(zero, Number::Zero);
let one = Number::from(1u8);
assert_eq!(one, Number::NonZero(1_u8));
let two = Number::from(2u8);
assert_eq!(two, Number::NonZero(2_u8));
} ```
As this is naturally exhaustive, this is only supported for FromPrimitive
, not also TryFromPrimitive
.
If you're really certain a conversion will succeed (and have not made use of #[num_enum(default)]
or #[num_enum(alternatives = [..])]
for any of its variants), and want to avoid a small amount of overhead, you can use unsafe code to do this conversion.
Unless you have data showing that the match statement generated in the try_from
above is a bottleneck for you,
you should avoid doing this, as the unsafe code has potential to cause serious memory issues in your program.
```rust use num_enum::UnsafeFromPrimitive;
enum Number { Zero, One, }
fn main() { asserteq!( unsafe { Number::uncheckedtransmutefrom(0u8) }, Number::Zero, ); asserteq!( unsafe { Number::uncheckedtransmutefrom(1u8) }, Number::One, ); }
unsafe fn undefinedbehavior() { let _ = Number::uncheckedtransmute_from(2); // 2 is not a valid discriminant! } ```
Note that this derive ignores any default
, catch_all
, and alternatives
attributes on the enum.
If you need support for conversions from these values, you should use TryFromPrimitive
or FromPrimitive
.
This means, for instance, that the following is undefined behaviour:
```rust,norun use numenum::UnsafeFromPrimitive;
enum Number { Zero = 0,
// Same for `#[num_enum(catch_all)]`, and `#[num_enum(alternatives = [2, ...])]`
#[num_enum(default)]
One = 1,
} let undefinedbehavior = unsafe { Number::uncheckedtransmutefrom(2) }; ```
Some enum values may be composed of complex expressions, for example:
rust
enum Number {
Zero = (0, 1).0,
One = (0, 1).1,
}
To cut down on compile time, these are not supported by default, but if you enable the complex-expressions
feature of your dependency on num_enum
, these should start working.
num_enum may be used under your choice of the BSD 3-clause, Apache 2, or MIT license.