I guess that will be a duplicated question because it's something quite basic, but after some search I was not able to find the answer.

I have a .net462 application. I have the following enum:

 public enum Test
 {
     Foo,
     Bar,
 }

and the following endpoint in one controller:

 [HttpGet]
 [Route("myTest")]
 public IEnumerable<Test> GetMyFooTest()
 {
     return new List<Test> { Test.Bar, Test.Foo };
 }

Now, if I use chrome to retrieve data from the endpoint, I get:

Here the Enums appear in its string form.

However, when I call this endpoint from the front end (JS, jQuery), or if I call it using Postman, I get:

No matter if I visualise it with JSON, XML or any option:

Here I get the numerical values of the Enums.

Why this difference? Is there a way to get the string values in the front end? (of course I have the option to change the controller to return a IEnumerable<string> and use a ToString() on the c# side, but that would be quite ugly...).