Easy way to handle enum

[tech fan]

Hi, I'm new to Ibatis.net and want to know if there is easy way to handle enum types.

I have enums stored in db as string, and sometimes I just want a list of the enum  returned: IList<enumtype>, but I can not find a way to handle this map. Any anoying thing is, when I pass enum as parameter, unless I use a parameterclass, it seems I have no way to turn them into string. Any idea?

 

Regards,

T.C.

[Marco Franssen]

Why don't you just use integer or byte for saving the enum. If you have less then 255 enum values you use a byte for saving the integer.

public Enum MyEnum

{

       Value1 = 0,

       Value2 = 1,

       Value3 = 2,

       Value4 = 3,

       Value5 = 4

}

You can just cast then your byte values like this

byte enumvalue = Query.Database();

MyEnum currentvalue = (MyEnum) enumvalue;

2009/6/25 tech fan <monstercorp@...>

Hi, I'm new to Ibatis.net and want to know if there is easy way to handle enum types.

I have enums stored in db as string, and sometimes I just want a list of the enum  returned: IList<enumtype>, but I can not find a way to handle this map. Any anoying thing is, when I pass enum as parameter, unless I use a parameterclass, it seems I have no way to turn them into string. Any idea?

 

Regards,

T.C.

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Marco Franssen