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Add getUnits and getAliases addresses #48 #53

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@lukelaws lukelaws commented Oct 9, 2015

This is one solution to the issue. In #14 @rage-shadowman had mentioned "Another alternative, if you don't want ambiguous arrays, would be to return only the unit names (ie: for "" return "liter" -- the name sans the "<>" chars) and a getAliases method to get all the aliases for a named unit (["l", "L", "liter", "liters", "litre", "litres"]) or maybe event all the alternative aliases for a given alias (such that getAlternatives("liter") returns an identical array to getAlternatives("L"))."

I agree the grouped arrays are ambiguous, so I'm using that approach:

Qty.getUnits('currency'); // => [ 'dollar', 'cents' ]
Qty.getAliases('m'); // => [ 'm', 'meter', 'meters', 'metre', 'metres' ]

So only one name for each unit is returned.
Also:

Qty.getUnits(); // => [ 'acre','Ah','ampere','AMU','angstrom', ...]

So getUnits is sorted to make it perfect for feeding choices to the user. (Select box, predictive input)

@gentooboontoo also mentioned the getAliases method and again i agree, these should be separate functions. If this goes over well I can make a separate commit for the getPrefixes but I think there are quite a few versions of that that looked great already. They just are bundled up with these other changes.

Thanks for js-quantities! It's working out for us.

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Great, thank you for the PR. I think it is the right API.

As a side note, I would have preferred to keep the units identifiers hidden and encapsulated but since I have not found a way to avoid it, this PR is the good opportunity to include this feature.

gentooboontoo added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 14, 2015
Add getUnits and getAliases 

Addresses #48
@gentooboontoo gentooboontoo merged commit ba60d89 into gentooboontoo:master Oct 14, 2015
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