From 7f0e661371d41cfdc8b1649ed00e7a750c82e57a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Meghan Denny <hello@nektro.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:37:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add Value.getT which forwards the requested type into the
 optional this will make using it in conjunction with orelse much easier

---
 src/lib.zig | 9 +++++++++
 zig.mod     | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/lib.zig b/src/lib.zig
index 518722bf47079b63d04bece64f92bb103af4684e..8368ae6d760ea15b9aef18654c9331d773f926e9 100644
--- a/src/lib.zig
+++ b/src/lib.zig
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 const std = @import("std");
+const extras = @import("extras");
 
 pub const Value = union(enum) {
     Object: []Member,
@@ -34,6 +35,14 @@ pub const Value = union(enum) {
         return self.fetch_inner(query, 0);
     }
 
+    pub fn getT(self: Value, query: anytype, comptime ty: std.meta.FieldEnum(Value)) ?extras.FieldType(Value, ty) {
+        if (self.get(query)) |val| {
+            if (val == .Null) return null;
+            return @field(val, @tagName(ty));
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
     fn fetch_inner(self: Value, query: anytype, comptime n: usize) ?Value {
         if (query.len == n) {
             return self;
diff --git a/zig.mod b/zig.mod
index 8a04c26bccdf0bd67ad32c52096e03a3b9b31287..0216bc33d122f1aef9d0e19d232b74616ffc9cd3 100644
--- a/zig.mod
+++ b/zig.mod
@@ -3,5 +3,8 @@ name: json
 main: src/lib.zig
 license: MIT
 description: "A JSON library for inspecting arbitrary values"
+dependencies:
+  - src: git https://github.com/nektro/zig-extras
+
 dev_dependencies:
   - src: git https://github.com/truemedian/zfetch
-- 
2.54.0