Use an enum as a property

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Sometimes you have a field that is a look-up against a static group of ID/types that are either short enough to not be worth a whole separate table, or for organizational reasons don't make sense as a BelongsTo. For example, an article, page on a web-site, or blog post could have a statusID that indicates its stage in workflow. To work with something familiar let's modify Post from the BlogSample to have multiple states.

The rest of the class is left out for brevity, check the sample if you like.


using Castle.ActiveRecord;

[ActiveRecord]
public class Post : ActiveRecordBase
{
   private StatusType _status_type_id;
   
   public enum StatusType
   {
      Editing = 0,
      Published = 1,
      Archived = 2
   }
   
   [Property("status_type_id")]
   public StatusType Status
   {
      get { return _status_type_id; }
      set { _status_type_id = value; }
   }
}

Then you can use Post.Status like any other property, or like any other enum, for example, setting


Post.Status = Post.StatusType.Archived;

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