how to get the actual enum values instead of its int values-CodePudding

how to get the actual enum values instead of its int values

I have a enum class like below

public enum gender
{
 male,
 female,
 others
}

and this is my model create method

public async Task<IActionResult> CreateCanditae(Canditateinfo caninfo)
        {
            if (ModelState.IsValid)
            {
                Canditateinfo canditateinfo =  new Canditateinfo()
                {

                    CanditateAadhar = caninfo.CanditateAadhar,
                    CanditateActDoa = caninfo.CanditateActDoa,
                    CanditateName = caninfo.CanditateName,
                    CanditateAddress = caninfo.CanditateAddress,
                    CanditateAltNumber = caninfo.CanditateAltNumber,
                    CanditateId = caninfo.CanditateId,
                    CanditateDepartment = caninfo.CanditateDepartment,
                    CanditateDesignation = caninfo.CanditateDesignation,
                    CanditateDoj = caninfo.CanditateDoj,
                    CanditateEmail = caninfo.CanditateEmail,
                    CanditateGender = caninfo.CanditateGender,
                    CanditateIdNumber = caninfo.CanditateIdNumber,
                    CanditateLocation = caninfo.CanditateLocation,
                    CanditateMaritialStatus = caninfo.CanditateMaritialStatus,
                    CanditatePancard = caninfo.CanditatePancard,
                    CanditateTeam = caninfo.CanditateTeam,
                    CanditateBaseLocation = caninfo.CanditateBaseLocation,
                    CanditateManager = caninfo.CanditateManager,
                    CanditateMobile = caninfo.CanditateMobile,
                    EnteredBy = HttpContext.Session.GetString("username"),
                    EnteredDate = DateTime.Now,
                    IsActive = 1,
                    DeleteFlag =0
                    
                };
                _context.Canditateinfos.Add(canditateinfo);
                _context.SaveChanges();
            }
            
            return View(nameof(Create));
        }

i am saving this in mysql db. here when i save the gender it is showing as '1' instead of 'male' how to achieve it

in my model it is of type enum as follows

public gender Gender {get; set;}

i cant save it as int in db because they will use ssrs to take report.also i cant have a table for them in db because of the process.

CodePudding user response：

Enum.GetName will do this for you, but obviously you'll need to change that column in the database to something that can hold a string value, if you haven't already.

CodePudding user response：

//just pass it as a string in the database

enum.GetName(typeOf(male),1);