ENH: New functions getEnumNameFromValue() and getEnumValueFromName()

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Do the new functions cover the use cases of higher-order client libraries?

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make test, look into test_utility.cpp.

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include/caosdb/data_type.h

@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ class Entity;
 class Property;
 
 // Atomic data types.
-enum AtomicDataType {
+enum class AtomicDataType {
   // The data type is unset/unknown.
-  UNSPECIFIED_DATA_TYPE = ProtoAtomicDataType::ATOMIC_DATA_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED,
+  UNSPECIFIED = ProtoAtomicDataType::ATOMIC_DATA_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED,
   // TEXT data type.
   TEXT = ProtoAtomicDataType::ATOMIC_DATA_TYPE_TEXT,
   // DOUBLE data type.
@@ -61,6 +61,17 @@ enum AtomicDataType {
   BOOLEAN = ProtoAtomicDataType::ATOMIC_DATA_TYPE_BOOLEAN,
 };
 
+const std::map<AtomicDataType, std::string> atomicdatatype_names =
+  {
+   {AtomicDataType::UNSPECIFIED, "UNSPECIFIED"},
+   {AtomicDataType::TEXT, "TEXT"},
+   {AtomicDataType::DOUBLE, "DOUBLE"},
+   {AtomicDataType::DATETIME, "DATETIME"},
+   {AtomicDataType::INTEGER, "INTEGER"},
+   {AtomicDataType::BOOLEAN, "BOOLEAN"}
+  };
+
+
 class DataType;
 class ListDataType;
 
@@ -144,12 +155,26 @@ public:
   DataType(ProtoDataType *wrapped)
     : ProtoMessageWrapper<ProtoDataType>(wrapped) {}
   DataType() : ProtoMessageWrapper<ProtoDataType>() {}
-  DataType(AtomicDataType data_type) : DataType() {
-    this->wrapped->set_atomic_data_type(
-      static_cast<ProtoAtomicDataType>(data_type));
+  /**
+   * Create an AtomicDataType typed DataType.  For references, use the std::string constructor.
+   */
+  DataType(AtomicDataType data_type, bool list_type = false) : DataType() {
+    if (list_type) {
+      this->wrapped->mutable_list_data_type()->set_atomic_data_type
+        (static_cast<ProtoAtomicDataType>(data_type));
+    } else {
+      this->wrapped->set_atomic_data_type(static_cast<ProtoAtomicDataType>(data_type));
+    }
   }
-  DataType(const std::string &data_type) : DataType() {
-    this->wrapped->mutable_reference_data_type()->set_name(data_type);
+  /**
+   * Create a reference typed DataType.
+   */
+  DataType(const std::string &data_type, bool list_type = false) : DataType() {
+    if (list_type) {
+      this->wrapped->mutable_list_data_type()->mutable_reference_data_type()->set_name(data_type);
+    } else {
+      this->wrapped->mutable_reference_data_type()->set_name(data_type);
+    }
   }
   [[nodiscard]] inline auto IsAtomic() const noexcept -> bool {
     return this->wrapped->data_type_case() == DataTypeCase::kAtomicDataType;