EntityRoute does not support enum fields

[asgraf]

Description

I don't know is this ticket should be classified as bug or as feature request (kinda both)

Currently, EntityRoute simply does not work with \BackedEnum fields as expected.
For purpose of routing \StringBackedEnum values should be casted to strings and \IntBackedEnum values should be casted to ints
I currently already do this in my CustomEntityRoute class but i feel this should be part of the base CakePHP

CakePHP Version

5.x

PHP Version

No response

[asgraf]

Additionaly RouteBuilder could also get some Enum support.

Currently i need to make enum routes like this:

$builder->connect(
    '/create/{sharing_type}/ipv6',
    ['action' => 'add', 'ip_version' => IpVersion::IPv6->value],
    ['sharing_type' => implode('|', array_column(SharingType::cases(), 'value'))]
);
$builder->connect(
    '/create/{sharing_type}/',
    ['action' => 'add', 'ip_version' => IpVersion::IPv4->value],
    ['sharing_type' => implode('|', array_column(SharingType::cases(), 'value'))]
);

native support for enums in routing logic itself this could allow this example to trimmed down to:

$builder->connect(
    '/create/{sharing_type}/ipv6',
    ['action' => 'add', 'ip_version' => IpVersion::IPv6],
    ['sharing_type' => SharingType::cases()]
);
$builder->connect(
    '/create/{sharing_type}/',
    ['action' => 'add', 'ip_version' => IpVersion::IPv4],
    ['sharing_type' => SharingType::cases()]
);

[dereuromark]

Do you want to make a PR for 5.next to add support for this?

[markstory]

Bumping to 5.1 as we haven't implemented enum support into routes yet, so it isn't a defect. I do agree that it is a useful addition 😄

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