{"id":11290,"date":"2015-05-22T09:46:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T13:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11290"},"modified":"2015-05-26T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T19:00:17","slug":"reflectableenum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/22\/reflectableenum\/","title":{"rendered":"ReflectableEnum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arkadiusz Holko&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fastred\/ReflectableEnum\">ReflectableEnum<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/macdevweekly.com\/issues\/8\">Mac Dev Weekly<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fastred\/ReflectableEnum\">\n<p>A macro and a set of functions introducing reflection for enumerations in Objective-C.<\/p>\n<p>Features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>get a string value for an enumeration's member (which is a <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/6331762\/enum-values-to-nsstring-ios\">common<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/1094984\/convert-objective-c-typedef-to-its-string-equivalent\">problem<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>get all values used in an enumeration (also a <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/6910127\/iteration-over-enum-in-objective-c\">prevalent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/1662719\/looping-through-enum-values\">issue<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>get a minimum value in an enumeration<\/li>\n<li>get a maximum value in an enumeration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You replace <code>NS_ENUM<\/code> with <code>REFLECTABLE_ENUM<\/code>, which parses the text of the definition and generates a family of helper functions.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rentzsch\/JREnum\">JREnum<\/a>, which seems to be more flexible about the values it supports, but uses <code>typedef enum<\/code> instead of <code>NS_ENUM<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2015-05-26): <a href=\"http:\/\/holko.pl\/2015\/05\/25\/reflectable-enum\/\">Arkadiusz Holko<\/a> now has a blog post about ReflectableEnum.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkadiusz Holko&rsquo;s ReflectableEnum (via Mac Dev Weekly): A macro and a set of functions introducing reflection for enumerations in Objective-C. Features: get a string value for an enumeration's member (which is a common problem) get all values used in an enumeration (also a prevalent issue) get a minimum value in an enumeration get a maximum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[69,31,30,941,54,74,71],"class_list":["post-11290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-cocoa","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-macros","tag-objective-c","tag-opensource","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11329,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11290\/revisions\/11329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}