Faker.js: Random value from Typescript enum (string literal)?

[ghost]

Given the following example TypeScript string enum:

export enum PaycheckFrequency {
  WEEKLY = 'weekly',
  EVERY_TWO_WEEKS = 'every two weeks',
  MONTHLY = 'monthly',
  OTHER = 'other',
}

Would it be possible to use Faker to randomly return one property as a value?

It's possible to do the following, but it only returns strings, and the arrayElement() method wants numbers correlating to indexes.

const randomPaycheckFrequency =
      PaycheckFrequency[
        faker.random.arrayElement(Object.getOwnPropertyNames(PaycheckFrequency))
];

[Marak]

I'd imagine you could write an intermediary function that would transform the arguments into the format you need?

Sorry, I'm not really using TypeScript in production so I'm not 100% fluent with it's latest syntaxes.

[ghost]

I did get this to work:

```typescript
const randomPaycheckFrequency =
PaycheckFrequency[
faker.helpers.replaceSymbolWithNumber(
faker.random.arrayElement(Object.getOwnPropertyNames(PaycheckFrequency))
)
];

[Marak]

Looks good to me.

Closing.

[Tybot204]

In case someone comes across this again as I did, this issue inspired me to create this solution using object values:

const randomPaycheckFrequency = faker.random.arrayElement(Object.values(PaycheckFrequency))