sum_types 0.1.4

sum_types and sum_types_generator packages together define a code generator enabling sum-types in Dart.

sum_types and sum_types_generator

sum_types and sum_types_generator packages together define a code generator enabling sum-types in Dart.

Features

Core:

• ✅ Const case-constructors (const Nat.zero())
• ✅ Extensible sum-types (Nat.toInt())
• ✅ Nested sum-types
• ✅ Recursive sum-types (Case<_Nat>(name: "next") → Nat.next(Nat.zero()))
• ❌ Generic sum-types (Either<Left, Right>)
• ✅ Exhaustive in-line iswitch
• ✅ Inexhaustive in-line iswitcho (with otherwise: case)

Sugar:

• ✅ No-payload cases (Case<void>(name: "zero") → Nat.zero())
• ✅ Default case-names (Case<String>() → JSON.string("some"))

Trivia:

• ✅ Equality test
• ✅ Hash function
• ✅ To string conversion

Serialization-deserialization support through product-types interoperability:

• ✅ Deserialization support (NatRecord<Self>, Nat.load<T extends NatRecord<T>>(T rec))
• ✅ Serialization support (Nat.dump<T>(T Function({Unit zero, T next} make)))

Example

In example/lib/example.dart you can find a couple of sum-type declarations and in example/lib/example.g.dart the generated code.

This one models the natural numbers (with zero):

@SumType([
  Case<void>(name: "zero"),
  Case<_Nat>(name: "next"),
])
mixin _Nat implements _NatBase {
  Nat operator +(Nat other) => iswitch(
        zero: () => other,
        next: (next) => Nat.next(next + other),
      );

  int toInt() => iswitch(
        zero: () => 0,
        next: (next) => 1 + next.toInt(),
      );
}

Development

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