Column casted as enum

[eafarooqi]

Have you searched through other issues to see if your problem is already reported or has been fixed?

Yes, I did not find it.

Did you read the documentation?

Yes, I did not find it.

Have you tried to publish the views?

Yes - I didn't work.

Is there an error in the console?

No

PHP Version

8.1.0

PowerGrid

5.3.1

Laravel

10.42.0

Livewire

3.4.1

Alpine JS

3.12.0

Theme

Bootstrap

Describe the bug.

I have an enum field which is include in the $cast attribute as enum. As per document i am getting the following error.
"Male" is not a valid backing value for enum "App\Enums\Person\Gender"

• cast property in model

protected $casts = [
        'gender'            => Gender::class,
];

• Gender enum

enum Gender: string
{
    use EnumToCollectionTrait;

    case MALE = 'M';
    case FEMALE = 'F';

    public function label(): string
    {
        return match($this) {
            self::MALE => 'Male',
            self::FEMALE => 'Female',
        };
    }
}

• Column

->addColumn('gender', function (Person $person) {
                return Gender::tryFrom($person->gender->value)->label();
            });

This only works when cast is removed from the model and column is changed to as follows (as in documentation). But i cannot remove the cast.

return Gender::tryFrom($person->gender)->label();

• Have also tried with cast property as enum.

->addColumn('gender', function (Person $person) {
                return $person->gender->value;
            });

getting the following error in this case.
preg_replace(): Argument # 3 ($subject) must be of type array|string, App\Enums\Person\Gender given

or as follows

 ->addColumn('gender', function (Person $person) {
                return $person->gender->label();
            });

The error is same as the first one.
"Male" is not a valid backing value for enum "App\Enums\Person\Gender"

To Reproduce...

Add enum column to the cast propery in model.

[dansysanalyst]

Hi @eafarooqi,

Following your example, add the column with a different name than gender, for instance gender label.

    public function addColumns(): PowerGridColumns
    {
        return PowerGrid::columns()
            ->addColumn('id')
            ->addColumn('name')
            ->addColumn('gender_label', function (User $person) {
                return $person->gender->label();
            });

Then, when including the column, use the gender_label source:

public function columns(): array
    {
        return [
            Column::make('Id', 'id'),

            Column::make('gender', 'gender_label'),
            
            //....
        ];
    }

You should be getting the label of your Enum in the table:

[eafarooqi]

Hello @dansysanalyst

thank you so much for the solution. That i have already figured it out that the enum columns can be used with this work around. But is it a bug? or is it a limitation in this package that the enum columns cant be used in the default way ?

[elsoftpy]

Hi, I can't make the searchable() method to work though.
I've already tried adding the field with a different name from the database and making the column using the "alias" as source.
Following the above example let's say I used gender_label and as @dansysanalyst said the table shows correctly, but adding the searchable() method to the column is not working