/// <summary>
/// Gets the description from an enum (using System.ComponentModel to utilize the DescriptionAttribute and System.Reflection to get the Attribute's value).
/// For iOS (or for the case of no Description attribute), defaults to the string value of the enum.
/// NOTE: Is not able to differentiate between two enum entries that share the same value.
/// If differentiation is required, use EnumUtility.GetDescriptions() instead.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="enumValue">The enum to return a Description for.</param>
/// <param name="userFriendlyAsFallback">If true, uses a user-friendly text format if there is no description. See FormatUtility.GetUserFriendlyText.</param>
/// <returns>string, either being the description, a user-friendly fallback, or the ToString representation.</returns>
public static string GetDescription(this Enum enumValue, bool userFriendlyAsFallback = true)
{
#if !UNITY_IOS
Type type = enumValue.GetType();
string name = Enum.GetName(type, enumValue);
if (name != null)
{
FieldInfo field = type.GetField(name);
if (field != null)
{
System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute attr = Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(field, typeof(System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute)) as System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute;
if (attr != null)
{
return(attr.Description);
}
}
}
#endif
if (userFriendlyAsFallback)
{
return(FormatUtility.GetUserFriendlyText(enumValue.ToString()));
}
return(enumValue.ToString());
}
/// <summary>
/// Returns a list of enum Descriptions (using the System.ComponentModel.DescriptionAttribute), ordered by index in the enum.
/// NOTE: This will preserve duplicate entries (multiple enum entries mapped to the same value), unlike Enum.GetDescription().
/// </summary>
/// <exception cref="ArgumentException">Passed Type is not an enum.</exception>
/// <param name="enumType"></param>
/// <param name="userFriendlyAsFallback">
/// If true, uses a user-friendly text format if there is no description. See FormatUtility.GetUserFriendlyText.
/// </param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static List <string> GetDescriptions(Type enumType, bool userFriendlyAsFallback = true)
{
if (!enumType.IsEnum)
{
throw new ArgumentException("Passed Type \"" + enumType.ToString() + "\" is not an enum.");
}
List <string> names;
if (!storedDescriptions.TryGetValue(enumType, out names))
{
names = new List <string>(Enum.GetNames(enumType));
#if !UNITY_IOS
FieldInfo field;
for (int i = 0; i < names.Count; i++)
{
field = (enumType).GetField(names[i]);
DescriptionAttribute attr = Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(field, typeof(DescriptionAttribute)) as DescriptionAttribute;
if (attr != null)
{
names[i] = attr.Description;
}
else if (userFriendlyAsFallback)
{
names[i] = FormatUtility.GetUserFriendlyText(names[i]);
}
}
#else
if (userFriendlyAsFallback)
{
for (int i = 0; i < names.Count; i++)
{
names[i] = FormatUtility.GetUserFriendlyText(names[i]);
}
}
#endif
storedDescriptions.Add(enumType, names);
}
return(new List <string>(names));
}