Does anyone know if there is a way to import all t...

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[Matthieu Stombellini]

Does anyone know if there is a way to import all the members of an enum which is in the same file as where you want to use them?

I want to do this:

// myfile.kt
enum MyEnum {
  HELLO, GOODBYE, HEY, GREETINGS
}

fun myFunction() {
  doSomethingWith(HELLO) // instead of MyEnum.HELLO
  doSomethingElse(GOODBYE) // instead of MyEnum.GOODBYE
}

I'd normally use MyEnum.HELLO and MyEnum.GOODBYE but I have a use case where that causes more harm than anything else.

The current workaround I use is to simply declare MyEnum in a separate file, but that is quite annoying.

(please redirect me to the right channel where I can ask this if there's a better place for this question!)

[Milan Hruban]

You should just be able to do

import package.MyEnum.*

[Mark Murphy]

import MyEnum.*

enum class MyEnum {
  HELLO, GOODBYE, HEY, GREETINGS
}

fun myFunction() {
  println(HELLO)
  println(GOODBYE)
}

fun main() {
  myFunction()
}

In this case, my code is in the top-level package, so I did not need to put a package qualifier on MyEnum. In a more traditional case, you would provide the fully-qualified class name for MyEnum in the import.

[Matthieu Stombellini]

I didn't realize you could import something that's from the same file 🤦‍♂️
Thank you very much everyone!