c# - How to get the Display Name Attribute of an Enum member via MVC Razor code?

Question

I've got a property in my model called Promotion that its type is a flag enum called UserPromotion. Members of my enum have display attributes set as follows:

[Flags]
public enum UserPromotion
{
    None = 0x0,

    [Display(Name = "Send Job Offers By Mail")]
    SendJobOffersByMail = 0x1,

    [Display(Name = "Send Job Offers By Sms")]
    SendJobOffersBySms = 0x2,

    [Display(Name = "Send Other Stuff By Sms")]
    SendPromotionalBySms = 0x4,

    [Display(Name = "Send Other Stuff By Mail")]
    SendPromotionalByMail = 0x8
}

Now I want to be able to create say a ul in my view to show the selected values of my Promotion property. This is what I have done so far but the problem is that how can I get the display names here?

<ul>
    @foreach (int aPromotion in @Enum.GetValues(typeof(UserPromotion)))
    {
        var currentPromotion = (int)Model.JobSeeker.Promotion;
        if ((currentPromotion & aPromotion) == aPromotion)
        {
        <li>Here I don't know how to get the display attribute of "currentPromotion".</li>
        }
    }
</ul>

Answer 1

One liner - Fluent syntax

public static class Extensions
{
    /// <summary>
    ///     A generic extension method that aids in reflecting 
    ///     and retrieving any attribute that is applied to an `Enum`.
    /// </summary>
    public static TAttribute GetAttribute<TAttribute>(this Enum enumValue) 
            where TAttribute : Attribute
    {
        return enumValue.GetType()
                        .GetMember(enumValue.ToString())
                        .First()
                        .GetCustomAttribute<TAttribute>();
    }
}

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Example

public enum Season 
{
   [Display(Name = "It's autumn")]
   Autumn,

   [Display(Name = "It's winter")]
   Winter,

   [Display(Name = "It's spring")]
   Spring,

   [Display(Name = "It's summer")]
   Summer
}

public class Foo 
{
    public Season Season = Season.Summer;

    public void DisplayName()
    {
        var seasonDisplayName = Season.GetAttribute<DisplayAttribute>();
        Console.WriteLine("Which season is it?");
        Console.WriteLine (seasonDisplayName.Name);
    } 
}

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Output

Which season is it?
It's summer