Storing Enums as strings in MongoDB

Question

Is there a way to store Enums as string names rather than ordinal values?

Example:

Imagine I\'ve got this enum:

public enum Gender
{
    Fema         


        

Answer 1

You can customize the class map for the class that contains the enum and specify that the member be represented by a string. This will handle both the serialization and deserialization of the enum.

if (!MongoDB.Bson.Serialization.BsonClassMap.IsClassMapRegistered(typeof(Person)))
      {
        MongoDB.Bson.Serialization.BsonClassMap.RegisterClassMap(cm =>
         {
           cm.AutoMap();
           cm.GetMemberMap(c => c.Gender).SetRepresentation(BsonType.String);

         });
      }

I am still looking for a way to specify that enums be globally represented as strings, but this is the method that I am currently using.