typescript - How to programmatically enumerate an enum type?

Question

Say I have a TypeScript enum, MyEnum, as follows:

enum MyEnum {
    First,
    Second,
    Third
}

What would be the best way in TypeScript 0.9.5 to produce an array of the enum values? Example:

var choices: MyEnum[]; // or Array<MyEnum>
choices = MyEnum.GetValues(); // plans for this?
choices = EnumEx.GetValues(MyEnum); // or, how to roll my own?

Answer 1

This is the JavaScript output of that enum:

var MyEnum;
(function (MyEnum) {
    MyEnum[MyEnum["First"] = 0] = "First";
    MyEnum[MyEnum["Second"] = 1] = "Second";
    MyEnum[MyEnum["Third"] = 2] = "Third";
})(MyEnum || (MyEnum = {}));

Which is an object like this:

{
    "0": "First",
    "1": "Second",
    "2": "Third",
    "First": 0,
    "Second": 1,
    "Third": 2
}

Enum Members with String Values

TypeScript 2.4 added the ability for enums to possibly have string enum member values. So it's possible to end up with an enum that look like the following:

enum MyEnum {
    First = "First",
    Second = 2,
    Other = "Second"
}

// compiles to
var MyEnum;
(function (MyEnum) {
    MyEnum["First"] = "First";
    MyEnum[MyEnum["Second"] = 2] = "Second";
    MyEnum["Other"] = "Second";
})(MyEnum || (MyEnum = {}));

Getting Member Names

We can look at the example immediately above to try to figure out how to get the enum members:

{
    "2": "Second",
    "First": "First",
    "Second": 2,
    "Other": "Second"
}

Here's what I came up with:

const e = MyEnum as any;
const names = Object.keys(e).filter(k => 
    typeof e[k] === "number"
    || e[k] === k
    || e[e[k]]?.toString() !== k
);

Member Values

Once, we have the names, we can loop over them to get the corresponding value by doing:

const values = names.map(k => MyEnum[k]);

Extension Class

I think the best way to do this is to create your own functions (ex. EnumEx.getNames(MyEnum)). You can't add a function to an enum.

class EnumEx {
    private constructor() {
    }

    static getNamesAndValues(e: any) {
        return EnumEx.getNames(e).map(n => ({ name: n, value: e[n] as string | number }));
    }

    static getNames(e: any) {
        return Object.keys(e).filter(k => 
            typeof e[k] === "number"
            || e[k] === k
            || e[e[k]]?.toString() !== k
        );
    }

    static getValues(e: any) {
        return EnumEx.getNames(e).map(n => e[n] as string | number);
    }
}