Enum type -> String value

[bordunosp]

Hi
I need string value of enum type
How I can get it?

Now var "name" is internal, so I cant use it and no other way got it.

I found many similar issue, but no one can help me
each person should be able to independently decide how to organize their code

Earlier I worked with GRPC used python, C#, Go.
All this lang have both ways Int vs String.
Why Swift decides for me?

[thomasvl]

See the other open & closed issues for this. The other languages tend to expose this via their "reflection" apis where they expose descriptor objects that let you interact with messages/fields/enums generically. This library doesn't yet provide anything like that.

Some of the open issues related to this and enums: #872 #731

[bordunosp]

just change "internal" to "public" its easy (:

[bordunosp]

Databases didn't just come up with a type like enum. Try make alters to tables that are over hundreds of millions of records just to change the enum to smallint so-so, it's easier to take another grpc tool.

It doesn't matter anymore. There are too many problems with other libraries when working on Linux. Swift is definitely a good tool, but apparently it's too early... mb after few years...

[sweetbot]

Any update on this? For analytics purpose we need to log the enum name. Protobuf for most other languages have an API to get the String from enum.

[elye]

I can easily do this in Android, but not in iOS. The inability to get the String from the enum make sharing the same Protobuf usage across the two platforms is limited.