How to project enum to id, value anon type?

Question

I have this enum:

  public enum Role {
    Admin,
    Manager,
    Engineer,
    User
  }

How could I project this into anonymous type, which I would send as JSON from a ASP.NET endpoint:

{
  { id: 0, name: "Admin" },
  { id: 1, name: "Manager" },
  { id: 2, name: "Engineer" },
  { id: 3, name: "User" }
}

How could I achieve this?

Answer 1

You can try this:

var result=Enum.GetNames(typeof(Role)).Select((e, i) => new { id = i, name = e });

Enum.GetNames return an string[] with the values of enum and Select extension method has an everload that gives you also the index