Facilitates intuitive and type-safe handling of units of measure, ensuring correctness through compile-time validation. Supports complex unit operations, custom unit definitions, and avoids raw value manipulation.
Measured provides a safe and simple way to work with units of measure. It uses the compiler to ensure correctness, and provides intuitive, mathematical operations to work with any units. This means you can write more robust code that avoids implicit units. Time handling for example, is often done with implicit assumptions about milliseconds vs microseconds or seconds. Measured helps you avoid pitfalls like these.
interface Clock {
fun now(): Measure<Time>
}
{
reportTimeInMillis(duration `` milliseconds)
}
{
startTime = clock.now()
handleUpdate(clock.now() - startTime)
}
{}
Use division and multiplication to create compound measures. Convert between these safely and easily with the as and in methods.
val velocity = 5 * meters / seconds
val acceleration = 9 * meters / (seconds * seconds)
val time = 1 * minutes
// d = vt + ½at²
val distance = velocity * time + 1.0 / 2 * acceleration * time * time
println(distance )
println(distance `` kilometers)
println(distance `` miles )
println( * miles / hours `` meters / seconds)
The as method converts a Measure from its current Unit to another. The result is another Measure. While in returns the magnitude of a Measure in the given Unit.
Measure's support of math operators helps you avoid working with raw values directly.
// typealias Velocity = UnitRatio<Length, Time> defined in the library
val marathon = 26 * miles
val velocity = 3 * kilometers / hours
val timeToRunHalfMarathon = (marathon / 2) / velocity // 6.973824 hr
fun calculateTime(distance: Measure<Length>, velocity: Measure<>): Measure<Time> {
distance / velocity
}
You can easily add new conversions to existing units and they will work as expected.
val hands = Length("hands", 0.1016) // define new Length unit
val l1 = 5 * hands
val l2 = l1 `as` meters
v: Measure<Velocity> = * hands / hours
println()
println(v `` hands / seconds)
println(v `` miles / hours )
You can also define entirely new units with a set of conversions and have them interact with other units.
Measured uses Kotlin's type system to enable compile-time validation. This works really well in most cases, but there
are things the type system currently does not support. For example, Units and Measures are order-sensitive.
val a: UnitsProduct<Angle, Time> = radians * seconds
val b: UnitsProduct<Time, Angle> = seconds * radians
Notice the types for a and b are different.
This can be mitigated on a case by case basis with explicit extension functions that help with order. For example,
you can ensure that kg is sorted before m by providing the following extension.
// ensure Mass comes before Length when Length * Mass
operator fun Length.times(mass: Mass) = mass * this
val f1 = 1 * (kilograms * meters) / (seconds * seconds)
val f2 = 1 * (meters * kilograms) / (seconds * seconds)
// f1 and f2 now have the same type
You can also define an extension on Measure to avoid needing parentheses around kilograms and meters.
// ensure Mass comes before Length when Measure<Length> multiplied by Mass
operator fun Measure<Length>.times(mass: Mass) = amount * (units * mass)
Measured currently only supports linear units where all members of a given unit are related by a single magnitude. This applies to many units, but Fahrenheit and Celsius are examples of temperature units that requires more than a multiplier for conversion.
Measured is a Kotlin Multi-platform library that targets a wide range of platforms. Simply add a dependency to your app's Gradle build file as follows to start using it.
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
implementation("io.nacular.measured:measured:$VERSION")
}
// Define a custom Units type
class Blits(suffix: String, ratio: Double = 1.0): Units(suffix, ratio) {
operator fun div(other: Blits) = ratio / other.ratio
companion object {
// Various conversions
val bloop = Blits("bp" ) // the base unit
val blick = Blits("bk", 10.0)
val blat = Blits("cbt", 100.0)
}
}
// Some typealiases to help with readability
typealias BlitVelocity = UnitsRatio<Blits, Time>
typealias BlitAcceleration = UnitsRatio<Blits, UnitsProduct<Time, Time>>
val m1: Measure<BlitAcceleration> = 5 * blat / (seconds * seconds)
val m2: Measure<BlitVelocity> = m1 * 10 * minutes
val m3: Measure<InverseUnits<Time>> = m2 / (5 * blick)
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