# class EnumTools

#### package haxe

Available on all platforms

This class provides advanced methods on enums. It is ideally used with `using EnumTools` and then acts as an extension to the `enum` types.

If the first argument to any of the methods is null, the result is unspecified.

### Static methods

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`staticinline createAll<T> (e:Enum<T>):Array<T>`

Returns a list of all constructors of enum `e` that require no arguments.

This may return the empty Array `[]` if all constructors of `e` require arguments.

Otherwise an instance of `e` constructed through each of its non- argument constructors is returned, in the order of the constructor declaration.

If `e` is `null`, the result is unspecified.

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`staticinline createByIndex<T> (e:Enum<T>, index:Int, ?params:Array<Dynamic>):T`

Creates an instance of enum `e` by calling its constructor number `index` with arguments `params`.

The constructor indices are preserved from Haxe syntax, so the first declared is index 0, the next index 1 etc.

If `e` or `index` is `null`, or if enum `e` has no constructor corresponding to index `index`, or if the number of elements in `params` does not match the expected number of constructor arguments, or if any argument has an invalid type, the result is unspecified.

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`staticinline createByName<T> (e:Enum<T>, constr:String, ?params:Array<Dynamic>):T`

Creates an instance of enum `e` by calling its constructor `constr` with arguments `params`.

If `e` or `constr` is `null`, or if enum `e` has no constructor named `constr`, or if the number of elements in `params` does not match the expected number of constructor arguments, or if any argument has an invalid type, the result is unspecified.

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`staticinline getConstructors<T> (e:Enum<T>):Array<String>`

Returns a list of the names of all constructors of enum `e`.

The order of the constructor names in the returned Array is preserved from the original syntax.

If `c` is `null`, the result is unspecified.

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`staticinline getName<T> (e:Enum<T>):String`

Returns the name of enum `e`, including its path.

If `e` is inside a package, the package structure is returned dot- separated, with another dot separating the enum name:

    pack1.pack2.(...).packN.EnumName

If `e` is a sub-type of a Haxe module, that module is not part of the package structure.

If `e` has no package, the enum name is returned.

If `e` is `null`, the result is unspecified.

The enum name does not include any type parameters.