Set options values to an entity property - database

Question

I come from Django, and with Django's ORM when defining a model I can set options, for example:
class MyModel(Model):
CHOICES = (...) # List of choices here
# it has tu be a 2-tuple list
# but that's is not the point right now.
choice = IntegerField(choices=CHOICES) # Set the choices.
Now, when MyModel is used to create an instance, the attribute(property) choice can hold only values defined in CHOICES.
There is some like this for EntityFrameworkCore-2.0?
It is something like this possible?
class MyEntity
{
[choices=EnumDefiningChoices]
property enum choices { get; set; }
}

Answer 1

A property can have a single defined value, an int, string, etc in order to be stored in a database.
An approach is to use 2 tables, one for your entity and one for the choices.
MyEntity:
public class MyEntity
{
public int Id { get; set; }
// all the other properties
public int ChoiceId { get; set; } // Here is the refference for the choice
public virtual Choice Choice { get; set; }
}
Choice:
public class Choice
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
}
As you can see the ChoiceId will allow only values from the Choice table.
However if you want to use an Enum there is no "blocking" mechanism using EF, this must be implemented at the application level.

Answer 2

Indeed, there is a way!
With EF > 6 you can do something like this:
public enum Option
{
option_1 = 1,
option_2,
option_3
}
class SomeEntity
{
public Option Option { get; set; }
}
And you can get the enum option name with:
var option_name = Option.GetName(typeof(Option), some_entity.option_2);
Console.WriteLine(option_name);
References
Working with Enumerated Values in Entity Framework
Enum.GetName Method (Type, Object)