So I have this in the javascript for my page:

var TEST_ERROR  = {

        'SUCCESS'   :   0,

        'FAIL'      :   -1,

        'ID_ERROR'  :   -2

      };

And perform tests on functions in the page like so:

function test()

{

    // Get the paragraph from the DOM

    var testResultParagraph = document.getElementById('testResult');



    // Check the paragraph is valid

    if(!testResultBox)

    {

        // Update the web page

        testResultParagraph.value = TEST_ERROR.ID_ERROR;

        return TEST_ERROR.ID_ERROR;

    }



    // Something to store the results

    var testResult = TEST_ERROR.SUCCESS;



    // Test the calculation

    testResult = testCalculate()



    // Update the web page

    testResultParagraph.value = testResult;



    // The test succeeded

    return TEST_ERROR.SUCCESS;

}

The result of testCalculate() and the value of the paragraph will be either 0, -1, -2 depending on the outcome.

Now I want to map this to a string so that the paragraph shows 'Success', 'Fail' or 'ID Error'

I could do this a few ways I have figured:

var TEST_ERROR  = {

        'SUCCESS'   :   {VALUE : 0 , STRING: 'Success' },

        'FAIL'      :   {VALUE : -1, STRING: 'Fail'    },

        'ID_ERROR'  :   {VALUE : -2, STRING: 'Id Error'},

      };

would require a modification to the enum dot accessors, or

var TEST_ERROR  = {

        'SUCCESS'   :   0,

        'FAIL'      :   1,

        'ID_ERROR'  :   2

      };



var TEST_STRING = [

        'Success',

        'Fail',

        'ID Error'

      ];

Which would require changes to the logic (result > TEST_ERROR.SUCCESS seems wierd tho!)

My question is how would you go about mapping an enumerator value to a string value in Javascript? I'm thinking the second way is the most sensible, but would like the enumerator to be positive for successes and negative for fails. I also like the idea of the first containing the strings and values in the object structure.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Matt

PS. I'm going to be doing the testing in a Web Worker, so that the page doesn't hang and the results will be put into a table, not a paragraph like above.

PPS. I'm pretty new to Javascript programming, but do a lot in ASM, C, C++, C#.