enum-table

enum-table is a lightweight and efficient Rust library for mapping enums to values.
It provides a fast, type-safe, and allocation-free alternative to using HashMap for enum keys, with compile-time safety and logarithmic-time access.

See CHANGELOG for version history and recent updates.

Installation

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
enum-table = "1.0"

Requires Rust 1.85 or later.

Features at a Glance

Type Safety: Only valid enum variants can be used as keys.
Compile-Time Checks: Leverages Rust's type system for compile-time guarantees.
Efficiency: O(log N) access time via binary search, no heap allocation.
Custom Derive: Procedural macro to automatically implement the Enumable trait for enums.
Const Support: Tables can be constructed at compile time.
Serde Support: Optional serialization and deserialization support with the serde feature.

Usage Examples

Basic Usage

use enum_table::{EnumTable, Enumable};

#[derive(Enumable)] // Automatically implements Enumable trait
#[repr(u8)] // Optional: but recommended for specification of discriminants
enum Test {
    A = 100, // Optional: You can specify custom discriminants
    B = 1,
    C,       // Will be 2 (previous value + 1)
}

// Compile-time table creation using the et! macro
static TABLE: EnumTable<Test, &'static str, { Test::COUNT }> = 
  enum_table::et!(Test, &'static str, |t| match t {
      Test::A => "A",
      Test::B => "B",
      Test::C => "C",
  });

// Accessing values from the compile-time table
const A: &str = TABLE.get(&Test::A);
assert_eq!(A, "A");

// Runtime table creation
let mut table = EnumTable::<Test, &'static str, { Test::COUNT }>::new_with_fn(
  |t| match t {
    Test::A => "A",
    Test::B => "B",
    Test::C => "C",
});

assert_eq!(table.get(&Test::A), &"A");

// This call returns the old value as all enum variants are initialized
let old_b = table.set(&Test::B, "Changed B");

assert_eq!(old_b, "B");
assert_eq!(table.get(&Test::B), &"Changed B");

Serde Support

Enable serde support by adding the serde feature:

[dependencies]
enum-table = { version = "1.0", features = ["serde"] }
serde_json = "1.0"

use enum_table::{EnumTable, Enumable};
use serde::{Serialize, Deserialize};
  
#[derive(Debug, Enumable, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
enum Status {
    Active,
    Inactive,
    Pending,
}

let table = EnumTable::<Status, &'static str, { Status::COUNT }>::new_with_fn(|status| match status {
    Status::Active => "running",
    Status::Inactive => "stopped", 
    Status::Pending => "waiting",
});

// Serialize to JSON
let json = serde_json::to_string(&table).unwrap();
assert_eq!(json, r#"{"Active":"running","Inactive":"stopped","Pending":"waiting"}"#);

// Deserialize from JSON
let deserialized: EnumTable<Status, &str, { Status::COUNT }> = 
    serde_json::from_str(&json).unwrap();

assert_eq!(table, deserialized);

Error Handling

The library provides methods for handling potential errors during table creation:

use enum_table::{EnumTable, Enumable};

#[derive(Enumable, Debug, PartialEq)]
enum Color {
    Red,
    Green,
    Blue,
}

// Using try_new_with_fn for fallible initialization
let result = EnumTable::<Color, &'static str, { Color::COUNT }>::try_new_with_fn(
    |color| match color {
        Color::Red => Ok("Red"),
        Color::Green => Err("Failed to get value for Green"),
        Color::Blue => Ok("Blue"),
    }
);

assert!(result.is_err());
let (variant, error) = result.unwrap_err();
assert_eq!(variant, Color::Green);
assert_eq!(error, "Failed to get value for Green");

API Overview

Key Methods

EnumTable::new_with_fn(): Create a table by mapping each enum variant to a value
EnumTable::try_new_with_fn(): Create a table with error handling support
EnumTable::checked_new_with_fn(): Create a table with optional values
EnumTable::get(): Access the value for a specific enum variant
EnumTable::get_mut(): Get mutable access to a value
EnumTable::set(): Update a value and return the old one

Additional Functionality

map(): Transform all values in the table
iter(), iter_mut(): Iterate over key-value pairs
keys(), values(): Iterate over keys or values separately
into_vec(): Convert the table to a vector of key-value pairs
try_from_vec(): Create a table from a vector of key-value pairs

For complete API documentation, visit docs.rs/enum-table.

Performance

The enum-table library is designed for performance:

Access Time: O(log N) lookup time via binary search of enum discriminants
Memory Efficiency: No heap allocations for the table structure
Compile-Time Optimization: Static tables can be fully constructed at compile time

Comparison with Alternatives

Compared to HashMap<EnumType, V>: enum-table provides compile-time safety, no heap allocations, and potentially better cache locality.
Compared to match statements: enum-table offers more flexibility and allows for runtime modification of values.
Compared to arrays with enum discriminants as indices: enum-table works with non-continuous and custom discriminants.

Feature Flags

default: Enables the derive feature by default.
derive: Enables the Enumable derive macro for automatic trait implementation.
serde: Enables serialization and deserialization support using Serde.

License

Licensed under the MIT license

Benchmarks

Invoke the benchmarks using cargo bench to compare the performance of EnumTable with a HashMap for enum keys. The benchmarks measure the time taken for creating a table, getting values, and setting values.

EnumTable::new_with_fn  time:   [295.20 ps 302.47 ps 313.13 ps]
Found 4 outliers among 100 measurements (4.00%)
  2 (2.00%) high mild
  2 (2.00%) high severe

EnumTable::get          time:   [286.89 ps 287.14 ps 287.50 ps]
Found 12 outliers among 100 measurements (12.00%)
  5 (5.00%) high mild
  7 (7.00%) high severe

HashMap::get            time:   [7.7062 ns 7.7122 ns 7.7188 ns]
Found 8 outliers among 100 measurements (8.00%)
  3 (3.00%) high mild
  5 (5.00%) high severe

EnumTable::set          time:   [287.01 ps 287.12 ps 287.25 ps]
Found 12 outliers among 100 measurements (12.00%)
  1 (1.00%) low mild
  3 (3.00%) high mild
  8 (8.00%) high severe

HashMap::insert         time:   [9.2064 ns 9.2242 ns 9.2541 ns]
Found 4 outliers among 100 measurements (4.00%)
  2 (2.00%) high mild
  2 (2.00%) high severe

enum-table 1.1.2