Question

A strange thing, I have two enum sets:

public enum ComponentActionTypes {
    Add = 0,
    Move = 1,
    Delete = 2,
    Edit = 3,
    Enable = 4,
    Disable = 5
}
public enum ComponentNames {
    Component = 0,
    Logo = 1,
    Main_menu = 2,
    Search_box = 3,
    Highlighter = 4,
    RSS = 5,
    Twitter = 6,
    YouTube = 7
}

when I try to print the following text,

ActionText =
string.Format("{0}ed a {1}", action.ComponentActionType, action.ComponentName);

will generate:

184ed a Logo instead of Added a Logo

action.ComponentActionType is converted to number (ToString didn’t help) and also a

strange number (like 184, not the enum number itself)

Any idea how to solve this?

Update:

namespace BrandToolbar.Common.ActionLog.Model
{
    public class ActionItem
    {
        public Guid UserId { get; set; }
        public Int64 PublicId { get; set; }
        public ComponentActionTypes ComponentActionType { get; set; }
        public DateTime Date { get; set; }
        public ComponentNames ComponentName { get; set; }
        public string UiJsonPreview { get; set; }
    }
}


public static ActionItemUI ConvertModelToUiObj(ActionItem action)
{
    return new ActionItemUI()
    {
        ActionText = string.Format(
            "{0}ed a {1}",
            action.ComponentActionType,
            action.ComponentName
        ).Replace("_", " "),
        TooltipText = string.Format(
            "{0}ed on {1}",
            action.ComponentActionType,
            action.Date.ToString(StringFormatter.DateFormat)
        ),
        ImageUrl = string.Empty,
        ConponentText = string.Empty
    };
}

Answer 1

Can you check how the ComponentActionType field is filled? Enum values can contain other values than listed. For example: this is perfectly valid:

    enum foo {A = 1,B = 2,C = 3};
    var b = (foo)7;

(If it wasn’t allowed by default, masking with enums would not be possible). The string representation in this case for b is 7, because it cannot be matched to an item in the enumeration.