How to pass Enum from view to model ASP.Net MVC

Question

the controller code looks like

public class EmployeeController : Controller
{
    public enum EmployeeType
    {
        RecruitmentOffice,
        ResearchI         


        

Answer 1

This is also pretty cool:

[Flags]
public enum PersonRole { User, Student, Instructor };

then from your razor view:

and in your javascript:

function onclickDeleteRole(role) {
    var personId = $('#SelectedPersonId').val();

    $.ajax({
        url: window.getUrl('Person/DeletePersonRole'),
        type: 'POST',
        dataType: 'json',
        data: {
            personId: personId,
            roles: role
        },
        success: function (json) {
            alert('success!')
        },
        error: function (jqXHR, status, error) {
            alert('error')
        }
    });
}

and your controller action:

public JsonResult DeletePersonRole(int personId, PersonRoleEnum roles)
{
    // do business logic here...
    // roles will now have value PersonRoleEnum.User|PersonRoleEnum.Student
    // and you can use roles.HasFlag(PersonRoleEnum.User) to check if that flag is set

    return Json(new {Result = "OK"});
}

EDIT: for readability, you can always use strings in javascript, and MVC will parse those for you, e.g.

$.ajax({
        url: window.getUrl('Person/DeletePersonRole'),
        type: 'POST',
        dataType: 'json',
        data: {
            personId: 1,
            roles: 'Student'
        },
        success: function (json) {
            alert('success!')
        },
        error: function (jqXHR, status, error) {
            alert('error')
        }
    });