How to get enum from raw value in Swift?

Too complicated, just assign the raw values directly to the cases

enum TestEnum: String {
  case Name = "Name"
  case Gender = "Gender"
  case Birth = "Birth Day"
}

let name = TestEnum(rawValue: "Name")!       //Name
let gender = TestEnum(rawValue: "Gender")!   //Gender
let birth = TestEnum(rawValue: "Birth Day")! //Birth

If the case name matches the raw value you can even omit it

enum TestEnum: String {
  case Name, Gender, Birth = "Birth Day"
}

In Swift 3+ all enum cases are lowercased

Full working example:

enum TestEnum: String {
    case name = "A Name"
    case otherName
    case test = "Test"
}

let first: TestEnum? = TestEnum(rawValue: "A Name")
let second: TestEnum? = TestEnum(rawValue: "OtherName")
let third: TestEnum? = TestEnum(rawValue: "Test")

print("\(first), \(second), \(third)")

All of those will work, but when initializing using a raw value it will be an optional. If this is a problem you could create an initializer or constructor for the enum to try and handle this, adding a none case and returning it if the enum couldn't be created. Something like this:

static func create(rawValue:String) -> TestEnum {
        if let testVal = TestEnum(rawValue: rawValue) {
            return testVal
        }
        else{
            return .none
        }
    }

With Swift 4.2 and CaseIterable protocol it is not that hard at all!

Here is an example of how to implement it.

import UIKit

private enum DataType: String, CaseIterable {
    case someDataOne = "an_awesome_string_one"
    case someDataTwo = "an_awesome_string_two"
    case someDataThree = "an_awesome_string_three"
    case someDataFour = "an_awesome_string_four"

    func localizedString() -> String {
        // Internal operation
        // I have a String extension which returns its localized version
        return self.rawValue.localized
    }

    static func fromLocalizedString(localizedString: String) -> DataType? {
        for type in DataType.allCases {
            if type.localizedString() == localizedString {
                return type
            }
        }
        return nil
    }

}

// USAGE EXAMPLE
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    if let dataType = DataType.fromLocalizedString(localizedString: self.title) {
        loadUserData(type: dataType)
    }
}

You can easily modify it to return the DataType based on the rawValue. I hope it helps!

You can define enum like this -

enum TestEnum: String {
    case Name, Gender, Birth
}

enum TestEnum: String {
    case Name
    case Gender
    case Birth
}

you can provide an init method which defaults to one of the member values.

enum TestEnum: String {
    case Name, Gender, Birth

    init() {
        self = .Gender
    }
}

In the example above, TestEnum.Name has an implicit raw value of "Name", and so on.

You access the raw value of an enumeration case with its rawValue property:

let testEnum = TestEnum.Name.rawValue
// testEnum is "Name"
let testEnum1 = TestEnum() 
// testEnum1 is "Gender"

How to get enum from raw value in Swift?

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