fix: translator can now handle enum translations

src/translator.ts

@@ -146,8 +146,8 @@ export class SCThingTranslator {
    * Applies known field value translations of the given SCThings meta class to an instance
    * Translated values overwrite current values inplace (destructive)
    *
-   * @param language The language the thing is translated to
-   * @param thing The thing that will be translated
+   * @param instance The thing / object that will be translated
+   * @param language The language the thing / object is translated to
    * @returns The thing with translated meta field values
    */
   private replaceAvailableMetaFieldValueTranslations(instance: any,
@@ -159,13 +159,18 @@ export class SCThingTranslator {
     if (typeof metaClass.fieldValueTranslations[language] !== 'undefined') {
       Object.keys(metaClass.fieldValueTranslations[language])
         .forEach((key) => {
-          if (metaClass.fieldValueTranslations[language][key] instanceof Object) {
+          if (metaClass.fieldValueTranslations[language][key] instanceof Object
+          && (instance as any)[key] instanceof Object) {
             // Assigns known translations of subproperties to property in given language (e.g. categories)
             Object.keys((instance as any)[key])
               .forEach((subKey) => {
                 (instance as any)[key][subKey] =
                   metaClass.fieldValueTranslations[language][key][(instance as any)[key][subKey]];
               });
+          } else if (metaClass.fieldValueTranslations[language][key] instanceof Object
+            && typeof (instance as any)[key] === 'string') {
+            // Assigns known translations of enum to property in given language (e.g. SCSettingInputType)
+            (instance as any)[key] = metaClass.fieldValueTranslations[language][key][(instance as any)[key]];
           } else {
             // Assigns property to known translation of fieldValueTranslations in given language
             (instance as any)[key] = metaClass.fieldValueTranslations[language][key];
@@ -213,8 +218,8 @@ export class SCThingTranslator {
    * All the values will be set to the known translations of the property/key name
    * @example
    * const translatedMetaDish = translator.translatedPropertyNames<SCCourseOfStudies>(SCThingType.CourseOfStudies);
-   * @param language The language the object is translated to
-   * @param thingType Type of the thing
+   * @param thing The thing whose property names will be translated
+   * @param language The language all property names will be translated to
    * @returns An object with the properties of the SCThingType where the values are the known property tranlations
    */
   public translatedPropertyNames<T extends SCThing>(thing: T,
@@ -228,8 +233,8 @@ export class SCThingTranslator {
    * Recursively translates the given object in-place
    * Translated values overwrite current values (destructive)
    *
-   * @param language The language the thing is translated to
-   * @param thing The thing that will be translated
+   * @param instance The thing / object that will be translated
+   * @param language The language the thing / object is translated to
    * @returns The thing translated
    */
   public translateWholeThingDestructively(instance: any,

test/translator.spec.ts

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import {slow, suite, test, timeout} from 'mocha-typescript';
 import {SCThingOriginType, SCThingType} from '../src/things/abstract/thing';
 import {SCBuildingWithoutReferences} from '../src/things/building';
 import {SCDish, SCDishMeta} from '../src/things/dish';
+import {SCSetting, SCSettingInputType} from '../src/things/setting';
 import {SCThingTranslator} from '../src/translator';
 
 const building: SCBuildingWithoutReferences = {
@@ -86,6 +87,23 @@ const dish: SCDish = {
   uid: '540862f3-ea30-5b8f-8678-56b4dc217140',
 };
 
+const setting: SCSetting = {
+  categories: ['profile'],
+  defaultValue: 'student',
+  description: 'base-description',
+  inputType: SCSettingInputType.SingleChoice,
+  name: 'group',
+  order: 1,
+  origin: {
+    indexed: '2018-11-11T14:30:00Z',
+    name: 'Dummy',
+    type: SCThingOriginType.Remote,
+  },
+  type: SCThingType.Setting,
+  uid: '2c97aa36-4aa2-43de-bc5d-a2b2cb3a530e',
+  values: ['student', 'employee', true, 42],
+};
+
 const translator = new SCThingTranslator('de');
 // tslint:disable-next-line:no-eval
 const languageNonExistant = eval("'jp'");
@@ -95,6 +113,10 @@ const translatorWithFallback = new SCThingTranslator(languageNonExistant);
 // tslint:disable:member-ordering TranslationSpecInplace
 @suite(timeout(10000), slow(5000))
 export class TranslationSpecInplace {
+  @test
+  public directEnumSingleValue () {
+    expect(translator.translate(setting).inputType()).to.equal('einfache Auswahl');
+  }
 
   @test
   public directStringLiteralType() {