我知道下面是不可能的,因为枚举的类型必须是int

enum GroupTypes
{
    TheGroup = "OEM",
    TheOtherGroup = "CMB"
}

从我的数据库中,我得到了一个不全面的代码字段(OEM和CMBs)。我想让这个字段成为一个枚举或其他可以理解的东西。因为如果目标是可读性,解决方案就应该简洁。

我还有其他选择吗?


当前回答

为什么不使用相同的枚举,而只是调用.ToString()?

using System;

public class EnumSample
{
    enum Holidays
    {
        Christmas = 1,
        Easter = 2
    };

    public static void Main()
    {
        Enum myHolidays = Holidays.Christmas;
        Console.WriteLine("The value of this instance is '{0}'", myHolidays.ToString());
    }
}

其他回答

这里是扩展方法,我用来获得枚举值作为字符串。首先是枚举。

public enum DatabaseEnvironment
{
    [Description("AzamSharpBlogDevDatabase")]
    Development = 1, 
    [Description("AzamSharpBlogQADatabase")]
    QualityAssurance = 2, 
    [Description("AzamSharpBlogTestDatabase")] 
    Test = 3
}

Description属性来自System.ComponentModel。

这是我的扩展方法:

public static string GetValueAsString(this DatabaseEnvironment environment) 
{
    // get the field 
    var field = environment.GetType().GetField(environment.ToString());
    var customAttributes = field.GetCustomAttributes(typeof (DescriptionAttribute), false);

    if(customAttributes.Length > 0)
    {
        return (customAttributes[0] as DescriptionAttribute).Description;  
    }
    else
    {
        return environment.ToString(); 
    }
}

现在,你可以使用下面的代码访问枚举字符串值:

[TestFixture]
public class when_getting_value_of_enum
{
    [Test]
    public void should_get_the_value_as_string()
    {
        Assert.AreEqual("AzamSharpBlogTestDatabase",DatabaseEnvironment.Test.GetValueAsString());  
    }
}

我的第一个问题-你有访问数据库本身的权限吗?这应该在数据库中规范化,否则,任何解决方案都将容易出错。根据我的经验,充满“OEM”和“CMB”的数据字段往往会随着时间的推移混合“OEM”和其他“垃圾数据”....如果可以规范化它,就可以使用包含元素的表中的键作为Enum,这样就完成了,结构更加简洁。

如果这是不可用的,我将使你的Enum,并使一个类来解析你的字符串为你的Enum。这至少会让您在处理非标准条目时具有一定的灵活性,在捕获或处理错误时也比使用enumeration . parse /Reflection/etc等方法灵活得多。字典可以工作,但如果你遇到大小写问题,可能会崩溃。

我建议你写一个类,这样你就可以:

// I renamed this to GroupType, since it sounds like each element has a single type...
GroupType theType = GroupTypeParser.GetGroupType(theDBString);

这样可以保留大部分的可读性,而不必更改DB。

添加这个类

public class DatabasePreference {
    public DatabasePreference([CallerMemberName] string preferenceName = "") {
        PreferenceName = preferenceName;
    }
    public string PreferenceName;
}

这项工作使用CallerMemberName来最小化编码

使用:

//Declare names
public static DatabasePreference ScannerDefaultFlashLight = new DatabasePreference();
public static DatabasePreference ScannerQrCodes = new DatabasePreference();
public static DatabasePreference Scanner1dCodes = new DatabasePreference();

测试:

Console.WriteLine(ScannerDefaultFlashLight.PreferenceName);
Console.WriteLine(ScannerDefaultFlashLight.Scanner1dCodes);

输出:

ScannerDefaultFlashLight
Scanner1dCodes

为什么不使用相同的枚举,而只是调用.ToString()?

using System;

public class EnumSample
{
    enum Holidays
    {
        Christmas = 1,
        Easter = 2
    };

    public static void Main()
    {
        Enum myHolidays = Holidays.Christmas;
        Console.WriteLine("The value of this instance is '{0}'", myHolidays.ToString());
    }
}

我做过类似的事情;

public enum BusinessUnits
{
    NEW_EQUIPMENT = 0,
    USED_EQUIPMENT = 1,
    RENTAL_EQUIPMENT = 2,
    PARTS = 3,
    SERVICE = 4,
    OPERATOR_TRAINING = 5
}

public class BusinessUnitService
{
    public static string StringBusinessUnits(BusinessUnits BU)
    {
        switch (BU)
        {
            case BusinessUnits.NEW_EQUIPMENT: return "NEW EQUIPMENT";
            case BusinessUnits.USED_EQUIPMENT: return "USED EQUIPMENT";
            case BusinessUnits.RENTAL_EQUIPMENT: return "RENTAL EQUIPMENT";
            case BusinessUnits.PARTS: return "PARTS";
            case BusinessUnits.SERVICE: return "SERVICE";
            case BusinessUnits.OPERATOR_TRAINING: return "OPERATOR TRAINING";
            default: return String.Empty;
        }
    }
}

用这个称呼它;

BusinessUnitService.StringBusinessUnits(BusinessUnits.PARTS)