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

The answers posted here work well for TEnum and TEnum[], however won't work with Dictionary. You could achieve this when initializing serializer using code, however I wanted to do this through attributes. I've created a flexible DictionarySerializer that can be configured with a serializer for the key and value.

public class DictionarySerializer : DictionarySerializerBase
    where TDictionary : class, IDictionary, new()
    where KeySerializer : IBsonSerializer, new()
    where ValueSerializer : IBsonSerializer, new()
{
    public DictionarySerializer() : base(DictionaryRepresentation.Document, new KeySerializer(), new ValueSerializer())
    {
    }

    protected override TDictionary CreateInstance()
    {
        return new TDictionary();
    }
}

public class EnumStringSerializer : EnumSerializer
    where TEnum : struct
{
    public EnumStringSerializer() : base(BsonType.String) { }
}

Usage like this, where both key and value are enum types, but could be any combination of serializers:

    [BsonSerializer(typeof(DictionarySerializer<
        Dictionary, 
        EnumStringSerializer,
        EnumStringSerializer>))]
    public Dictionary FeatureSettings { get; set; }