Opposite of Flutter's describeEnum function

Question

Flutter's foundation library has a describeEnum function that returns a short description based on an enum value.

Is there a function that would do the opposite, i.e., return enum value based on the received description?

I know about the enum_to_string, but I'm interested in vanilla Dart or Flutter standard library solution.

Solution

You can do that using the firstWhere function on the values of your enum:

MyEnum myEnum = MyEnum.values.firstWhere((e) => describeEnum(e) == str);

Comments

[Michal Karbownik]

@F Perroch A great idea, thanks! I'll wait a bit to get more answers, but if nothing better comes, I'll definitely accept yours!