First Class Support for Enums

I can see that there's limited support for enums here but this is such a huge barrier to getting started. I don't want to have to write a converter for each enum type that I use in my code.

I propose first class support for enums using the following mechanism:

This can be repeated for all the natively supported types, and should now be able to be handled internally.

interface EnumInt {
  val value: Int
}

interface EnumString {
  val value: String
}

inline fun <reified T> enumFromInt(value: Int?): T?
    where T : EnumInt, T : Enum<T> =
    value?.let { v ->
      enumValues<T>().let { values ->
        values.find {
          v == it.value
        } ?: throw IllegalArgumentException("Invalid int value: $v")
      }
    }

inline fun <reified T> enumFromString(value: String?): T?
    where T : EnumString, T : Enum<T> =
    value?.let { v ->
      enumValues<T>().let { values ->
        values.find {
          v == it.value
        } ?: throw IllegalArgumentException("Invalid string value: $v")
      }
    }

enum class Type(override val value: String) : EnumString {
      UNKNOWN("unknown"),
      IMAGE("image"),
      VIDEO("video")
}

enum class Status(override val value: Int) : EnumInt {
      ERROR(-3),
      UNRECOVERABLE_ERROR(-2),
      NONE(-1),
      DOWNLOADING(1),
      DOWNLOADED(2),
      UPLOADING(3),
      FINISHED(0)
}

Inizia esaminando la documentazione sui tipi personalizzati collegata nell’issue e la gestione esistente di enum e tipi personalizzati. Il lavoro è completato quando gli enum ricevono un supporto di persistenza di prima classe senza un convertitore per ogni tipo di enum, incluse le mappature proposte dei valori interi e stringa.