return a private enum

[Valmont]

Complete newbie at C#.

Class below stripped for brevity.
How do I return a private "Status" from a public method?
I may need a set/get but I don't know how to do that on an enum.

Thank you.
public class SomeClass
{
private enum Status {OK , NOK, UNK};

public Status check_status()
{
//...code to determine Status...
return NOK;
}
}

[Valmont]

return Status.NOK;

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| Complete newbie at C#.
|
| Class below stripped for brevity.
| How do I return a private "Status" from a public method?
| I may need a set/get but I don't know how to do that on an enum.
|
| Thank you.
|
|
| public class SomeClass
| {
| private enum Status {OK , NOK, UNK};
|
| public Status check_status()
| {
| //...code to determine Status...
| return NOK;
| }
| }
|
|
|

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Valmont,

You can't. The type is declared as private, so you can't expose it.
You can return it as an int, and cast the return value, but you won't have
type safety.

Why not just make the enumeration public?
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Valmont" <ax***********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Complete newbie at C#.

Class below stripped for brevity.
How do I return a private "Status" from a public method?
I may need a set/get but I don't know how to do that on an enum.

Thank you.
public class SomeClass
{
private enum Status {OK , NOK, UNK};

public Status check_status()
{
//...code to determine Status...
return NOK;
}
}

[Andy]

I don't think that will compile. The reason is that your return type
is of type Status, but you're not letting the outside world know how
Status is defined.

You'll have to make the enum public.

HTH
Andy

Valmont wrote:

Complete newbie at C#.

Class below stripped for brevity.
How do I return a private "Status" from a public method?
I may need a set/get but I don't know how to do that on an enum.

Thank you.
public class SomeClass
{
private enum Status {OK , NOK, UNK};

public Status check_status()
{
//...code to determine Status...
return NOK;
}
}

[Valmont]

Solved.

Engineering error from my part. Blackout I suppose: enum stays private.

Thank you Nicholas and Andy for your very fast response though!

"Valmont" <ax***********@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht
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| Complete newbie at C#.
|
| Class below stripped for brevity.
| How do I return a private "Status" from a public method?
| I may need a set/get but I don't know how to do that on an enum.
|
| Thank you.
|
|
| public class SomeClass
| {
| private enum Status {OK , NOK, UNK};
|
| public Status check_status()
| {
| //...code to determine Status...
| return NOK;
| }
| }
|
|
|

[Mark Wilden]

"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote in
message news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

You can't. The type is declared as private, so you can't expose it.
You can return it as an int, and cast the return value, but you won't have
type safety.

What would you cast it to? :)

///ark

[Ian Semmel]

It doesn't make sense to return a private type from a public function.

How do you expose this class ?

public myenum func ()
implies that myenum is known to the calling code.

Otherwiae, you can only have
public int myfunc ()

or in your particular example you could have
public DialogResult func ()
which has values Yes, No, None etc

Valmont wrote:

Complete newbie at C#.

Class below stripped for brevity.
How do I return a private "Status" from a public method?
I may need a set/get but I don't know how to do that on an enum.

Thank you.
public class SomeClass
{
private enum Status {OK , NOK, UNK};

public Status check_status()
{
//...code to determine Status...
return NOK;
}
}