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Reference: Standard library

Standard types

Speed

On this page

A speed, held in metres per second to 6 places, written 30mph or 100kmh; a Length over a Duration.

Physical quantities; ordered; since Jadpo 0.1.0.

Make one

text.parse(raw, as: Speed) reads one from its text; text that isn't one at all fails malformed, such as 5, "" or 1.2.3.

These operations give one: units.of and units.sum.

Text, JSON and storage

text.from writes its canonical text, the one form text.parse reads back. JSON sends an object of its parts.

Text JSON
0.5 mps {"value":"0.5","unit":"mps"}
13.4112 mps {"value":"13.4112","unit":"mps"}
340 mps {"value":"340","unit":"mps"}

It is stored in one column named for the field, of type numeric(38, 6), holding the speed in metres per second (m/s). 13.4112 mps is stored as 13.4112.

Shown to people

text.format(value, locale:) shows it to people in their locale. A call may also give unit:.

With locale: Locale.en_gb:

Value Shown
0.5 mps 0.5 m/s
13.4112 mps 13.4112 m/s
340 mps 340 m/s

Operations

  • units.in(value: Quantity, unit: QuantityUnit, scale: Int, rounding: Rounding) -> Decimal: value in unit, a unit of its kind, as a Decimal of scale places rounded by rounding: units.in(5km, LengthUnit.mile, scale: 2, rounding: Rounding.half_even) is 3.11.
  • units.of(value: Number, unit: QuantityUnit) -> Quantity: value of unit, an Int or a Decimal, as the quantity of unit's kind, converted exactly to the base unit and rounded half to even to the kind's scale: units.of(5, LengthUnit.mile).
  • units.sum(items: List<Quantity>) -> Quantity: The items added up, all of one kind; nothing for no items. A Temperature or a SoundLevel doesn't add to itself, so neither is summed.

Like every standard type, it also has the contract's own operations: text.parse, text.from, text.format, json.read, json.write and ==. It is ordered, so < and sorting take it. Every standard type meets one contract says how they work.

Markdown for agents: /docs/types/type-speed.md.Built from Jadpo main at e00e61f.