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Alnedru
Alnedru

Reputation: 2655

MVC how to correctly display localized enum in display form?

I have a question regarding enums, basically I've created a localized enum drop down list to correctly disply the enums with localization.

But when i would like to show the selected enum later somewhere on another page, I don't get the localization anymore.

Any idea, or maybe anyone could give me a link to some html extension for displaying enums.

I have the following:

public enum Gender
{
        [Display(ResourceType = typeof(Resources.Base), Name = "Male")]
        M= 0,
        [Display(ResourceType = typeof(Resources.Base), Name = "Female")]
        F= 1,
}

in my view i have following:

@Html.LabelForModel(Model.Gender.ToString())

And in the controler i set:

Model.Gender = Gender.M

Instead of showing the Male from the base, i get "M" displayed.

Any idea how to solve this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3454

Answers (2)

Alnedru
Alnedru

Reputation: 2655

Finally I solved my issue myself, I've created a custom html helper to display correctly the "display' annotation.

    public static MvcHtmlString DisplayEnum(this HtmlHelper helper, Enum e)
    {
        string result = string.Empty;

        var display = e.GetType()
                   .GetMember(e.ToString()).First()
                   .GetCustomAttributes(false)
                   .OfType<DisplayAttribute>()
                   .LastOrDefault();

        if (display != null)
        {
            result = display.GetName();
        }

        return helper.Label(result);
    }

Upvotes: 7

Selman Gen&#231;
Selman Gen&#231;

Reputation: 101701

You should use this code in your view:

@Html.LabelFor(m => m.Gender)

Because Display attribute using by LabelFor method to display your value.ToString is just converting your enum value to a string.It doesn't have any information about your attributes.

Upvotes: 1

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