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

I ended up assigning values to enum items, as suggested by Chris Smith in a comment:

I'd avoid it. The string value takes up way more space than an integer. I would however, if persistence is involved give deterministic values to each item in your enum so Female = 1, Male = 2 so if the enum is added to later or the order of items changed that you don't end up with problems.

Not exactly what I was looking for but it seems there's no other way around.