Can we assign custom names to enum values ?

[taherv]

type Fruit int
const (
     Apple Fruit = iota
     Banana
     Orange
)

I'd like the strings to be "apple", "banana", "orange". How can I assign custom strings ?

Something like this would work ?

type Fruit int
const (
     Apple Fruit = iota  `"apple"`
     Banana                  `"banana"`
     Orange                  `"orange"`
)

[taherv]

Also, for other reasons, I also need to implement stringer for my type, should jsonenums also generate the String() function ?

[dmitshur]

I also need to implement stringer for my type

There exists stringer for that task. (But I don’t think it’s output is customizable.)

[taherv]

I found this project https://github.com/alvaroloes/enumer
It generates yaml/json marshalers and also stringer implementations all using the same strings for enums.
It has basic string customization support (they call it "transform") which does what I want (small case strings) but it is not generally customizable as I would have expected ..... it does the job for me in the time being