Some questions coming from Rust (enums/traits)

[push-f (Martin)]

• Can you customize the deserialization of an enum?

• Can you implement methods for enums?

• Can you implement methods for foreign types? (e.g. can I add an inline method to js.html.CanvasElement objects?)

[Apprentice-Alchemist]

• Assuming you’re using haxe.Unserializer, not really.
• Static Extension (Language Features) - Haxe - The Cross-platform Toolkit
• Static Extension (Language Features) - Haxe - The Cross-platform Toolkit

(Note that static extension is purely compile time syntax sugar, it simply transforms x.staticExtension() into pack.Class.staticExtension(x))

[push-f (Martin)]

Thanks for the quick answer

My Haxe application is consuming a JSON API … I would like to serialize / deserialize some part of it from/into a Haxe enum.

Thanks, static extensions are exactly what I was looking for!

[kevinresol (Kevin Leung)]

1. Yes. Try tink_json or json2object or haxe.Serializer
2. Yes. Try adding @:using to your enum
3. Yes. You can add inline functions to extern.