Using enums in WCF Data Services

Question

I\'m trying to manually build a WCF Data Service using a POCO data model and I cannot figure out how to properly expose enum values. Assuming a simple model lik

Answer 1

Maybe we can "cheat" it with the below workaround:

[System.Data.Services.IgnoreProperties("Status")]
public class Order
{
   public int ID {get; set;}
   public string Description {get; set;}
   public OrderStatus Status {get; set;}
   public int StatusValue
   {
      get
      {
           return (int)this.Status;
      }
      set
      {
          // Add validation here
          this.Status = (OrderStatus)value;
      } 
   }
}

public enum OrderStatus
{
   New,
   InProcess,
   Complete
}