I have a REST API that returns a json document, one field is numeric, mode. The values of the mode field are limited 0-3, they represent different states. To me this looks like an enum from other languages. What is the recommend way to represent this data in enum? I was thinking a Union type would b…

This is a great way to model this. For decoding you would map each number to the value that matches, and fail when an unexpected value is reached. Possibly something like import Json.Decode type Mode = Off | Heat | Cool | Auto decode : Json.Decode.Decoder Mode decode = Json.De…

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rupert November 16, 2021, 10:30am 4

Some different ways of doing Enums in Elm were discussed here:

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Best way to represent an enum

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