Does Dart support enumerations?

Beginning 1.8, you can use enums like this:

enum Fruit {
  apple, banana
}

main() {
  var a = Fruit.apple;
  switch (a) {
    case Fruit.apple:
      print('it is an apple');
      break;
  }

  // get all the values of the enums
  for (List<Fruit> value in Fruit.values) {
    print(value);
  }

  // get the second value
  print(Fruit.values[1]);
}

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The old approach before 1.8:

class Fruit {
  static const APPLE = const Fruit._(0);
  static const BANANA = const Fruit._(1);

  static get values => [APPLE, BANANA];

  final int value;

  const Fruit._(this.value);
}

Those static constants within the class are compile time constants, and this class can now be used in, for example, switch statements:

var a = Fruit.APPLE;
switch (a) {
  case Fruit.APPLE:
    print('Yes!');
    break;
}

With r41815 Dart got native Enum support see http://dartbug.com/21416 and can be used like

enum Status {
  none,
  running,
  stopped,
  paused
}

void main() {
  print(Status.values);
  Status.values.forEach((v) => print('value: $v, index: ${v.index}'));
  print('running: ${Status.running}, ${Status.running.index}');
  print('running index: ${Status.values[1]}');
}

[Status.none, Status.running, Status.stopped, Status.paused]
value: Status.none, index: 0
value: Status.running, index: 1
value: Status.stopped, index: 2
value: Status.paused, index: 3
running: Status.running, 1
running index: Status.running

A limitation is that it is not possibly to set custom values for an enum item, they are automatically numbered.

More details at in this draft https://www.dartlang.org/docs/spec/EnumsTC52draft.pdf