enums cross-language language-interoperability

Unifying enums across multiple languages

I have one large project with components in multiple languages that each depend on some of the same enum values. What solutions have you come up with to unify enums across multiple arbitrary languages? I can think of a few, but I'm looking for the best solution.

(In my implementation, I'm using Php, Java, Javascript, and SQL.)

Solution

You can put all of the enums in a text file, then use a code generator to write out the appropriate syntax for each language from that common file so that each component has the enums. Make that text file the authoritative source of information.

You can express the text file in XML but I'd think a tab-delimited flat file would work just fine.

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