Question

I am starting a class for Events.
Currently there are two enums.

[Flag]
public enum Status
{
    statusA,
    statusB,
    statusC,
    statusD,
}

[Flag]
public enum StatusType{
    Request,
    Success,
    Fail,
    Start,
    End
}

I would like to be able to raise the event, Action RequestingStatusA (Status.StatusA & StatusType.Request) for example.
This of course, gives errors. Is there anyway to combine them on the fly but make it as a signature such that the event handler would recognise it.

Should I be even doing it this way even?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

No. Not only that, but you will have collisions if you try to map the non-transformed bit values – so don’t blinding consider casting to int 🙂

Why not create (and pass) a new type that wraps values of both enum types?

struct RequestStatus {
  // implement as desired
  public StatusType Type { get; set; }
  public Status Status { get; set; }
}

Action RequestingStatusA (RequestStatus status) {
  ..
}