Dart How to get the “value” of an enum

Question

Before enums were available in Dart I wrote some cumbersome and hard to maintain code to simulate enums and now want to simplify it. I need to get the value of the enum as

Answer 1

Simplest way to get the name of an enum is a standard method from the flutter/foundation.dart

describeEnum(enumObject)

enum Day {
  monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sunday
}

void validateDescribeEnum() {
  assert(Day.monday.toString() == 'Day.monday');
  assert(describeEnum(Day.monday) == 'monday');
}