You may want to take a look at https://github.com/alvaroloes/enumer https://github.com/alvaroloes/enumer which can generate functions around your enum to give/a

You may want to take a look at https://github.com/alvaroloes/enumer https://github.com/alvaroloes/enumer which can generate functions around your enum to give/accept string representations, plus JSON and SQL scanning.