From 3cc43119b40d3a556ae818b69bad5d977cc24014 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Grégoire Duchêne <gduchene@awhk.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 14:21:12 +0000
Subject: Add ParseStringEnum

---
 flag.go | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)

(limited to 'flag.go')

diff --git a/flag.go b/flag.go
index 51c78aa..01e5f54 100644
--- a/flag.go
+++ b/flag.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"sort"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"sync/atomic"
@@ -144,11 +145,44 @@ func (f *Feature) String() string {
 // value or an error.
 type ParseFunc[T any] func(string) (T, error)
 
+// ParseStringEnum returns a ParseFunc that will return the string
+// passed if it matched any of the values supplied. If no such match is
+// found, an UnknownEnumValueError is returned.
+//
+// Note that unlike ParseProtobufEnum, comparison is case-sensitive.
+func ParseStringEnum(values ...string) ParseFunc[string] {
+	return func(s string) (string, error) {
+		for _, val := range values {
+			if s == val {
+				return s, nil
+			}
+		}
+		return "", UnknownEnumValueError{s, values}
+	}
+}
+
 // ParseTime parses a string according to the time.RFC3339 format.
 func ParseTime(s string) (time.Time, error) {
 	return time.Parse(time.RFC3339, s)
 }
 
+// UnknownEnumValueError is returned by the functions produced by
+// ParseProtobufEnum and ParseStringEnum when an unknown value is
+// encountered.
+type UnknownEnumValueError struct {
+	Actual   string
+	Expected []string
+}
+
+func (err UnknownEnumValueError) Error() string {
+	// We sort the expected values so the output is deterministic, which may
+	// be useful when parsing logs or otherwise examining program output.
+	if !sort.StringsAreSorted(err.Expected) {
+		sort.Strings(err.Expected)
+	}
+	return fmt.Sprintf("unknown value %s, expected one of %s", err.Actual, err.Expected)
+}
+
 type flagFeature struct{ *Feature }
 
 func (flagFeature) IsBoolFlag() bool { return true }
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