Add a function ParseToEnum(<String>)

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Add a function ParseToEnum(<String>)

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You have a string and want the enumeration. See https://community.mendix.com/link/questions/102428.

You can create a deadsimple java-action for it, as Bart Rikers suggests, for parsing your string-value to an enum. But we have not become Mendix developers to still need low-code for this kind of simple tasks. Don’t know why this is not part of Mendix since the early days.

Also: this trick is already part of the web-service. Receiving a string for some attribute of type Enumeration, the web-services component handles the conversion.

Hoping to see ParseEnum become part of its colleagues:

asked 2020-08-26

Tim v Steenbergen

3 answers

Casper van Hoorn · Answer 1 · 2022-08-11

This would be very helpful. So much better than making a microflow with a lot of decisions to parse an enum (without using java action).

Gino Eelen · Answer 2 · 2022-08-02

Should be standard functionality. And since it is already available in Appronto Common, it would probably be low effort to include it in Mendix itself.

Sven Franke · Answer 3 · 2020-09-03

Would be nice to have it in Mendix itself (so upvoting). I know that such function is in the “Appronto Common” module.