Enum not binding to property in ASP.NET JSON request

Question

I am not sure why my enum of the type ScheduleType doesnt bind to the property Type in the json below. The other properties bind find, and I havent had an issue with an enum binding in other places, thoughts? It always defaults the the first one.

JSON

{"Id":0,"BulkInsertId":null,"DivisionId":10406,"DivisionName":"17","DivisionOrder":1,"Type":1,"Name":"A1 vs. A2" }

Class

public class ScheduleMatchupModel : IScheduleMatchupModel
    {
        public ScheduleType Type { get; set; }

        public int Id { get; set; }
        public int DivisionId { get; set; }
        public int? DivisionOrder { get; set; }
        public string DivisionName { get; set; }

IScheduleMatchupModel.cs

public interface IScheduleMatchupModel
{
    int Id { get; set; }
    ScheduleType Type { get; set; }

ScheduleType Enum

[DataContract(Namespace = "")]
public enum ScheduleType
{
    [EnumMember(Value = "0")]
    All = 0,
    [EnumMember(Value = "1"), Display(Name = "Pool Play")]
    Pool,
    [EnumMember(Value = "2"), Display(Name = "Bracket Play")]
    Bracket
}

Paweł Bejger · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-04 18:59:20Z

2

By means of the EnumMember attribute you set certain values to your enums:

[EnumMember(Value = "0")]
All = 0,
[EnumMember(Value = "1"), Display(Name = "Pool Play")]
Pool,
[EnumMember(Value = "2"), Display(Name = "Bracket Play")]
Bracket

The only problem is that the Value property of EnumMember attribute is a string:

public string Value { get; set; }

And you assign integers to your enums in your JSON:

{...,"Type":1,... }

You should therefore try to change it to string in your JSON:

{..."Type":"1",... }

edited Feb 4, 2014 at 18:59

answered Feb 4, 2014 at 18:33

Paweł Bejger

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2 Comments

Mike Flynn Over a year ago

Removing EnumMember has same effect

Mike Flynn Over a year ago

I made the property a string in Javascript and it works. Kind of weird there isnt a way around this.

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