Question

I’m trying to bind an enum AgeRange using Html.DropDownListFor but regardless of whatever I’m choosing from View page, Controller is getting a value ‘0’. Can anyone help me to fix this issue?

EDIT: Controller code in place.

Enum Class:

public enum AgeRange
{
  Unknown = -1,    
  [Description("< 3 days")]
  AgeLessThan3Days = 1,    
  [Description("3-6 days")]
  AgeBetween3And6 = 2,    
  [Description("6-9 days")]
  AgeBetween6And9 = 3,    
  [Description("> 9 days")]
  AgeGreaterThan9Days = 4
}

View:

@Html.DropDownListFor(
      model => model.Filter.AgeRangeId,
      @Html.GetEnumDescriptions(typeof(AgeRange)),
      new { @class = "search-dropdown", name = "ageRangeId" }
)

Controller:

public ActionResult Search(int? ageRangeId)
{
   var filter = new CaseFilter { AgeRangeId = (AgeRange)(ageRangeId ?? 0) };
}

Answer 1

You’re close…

I’d suggest following along with this guy