I have written a custom model binder for List in my MVC project however I am now stuck in how to get this binder to validate against my DataAnnotations validation attributes.
I have found some posts on the interwebs that talk about similar scenarios, but I haven't been able to find anything that works for my particular scenario.
Model Binder Code:
public class QuestionModelBinder : IModelBinder
{
public object BindModel(ControllerContext controllerContext, ModelBindingContext bindingContext)
{
List<QuestionEditModel> res = new List<QuestionEditModel>();
var form = controllerContext.HttpContext.Request.Form;
int i = 0;
while (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(form["Questions[" + i + "].QuestionID"]))
{
var p = new QuestionEditModel();
p.QuestionID = form["Questions[" + i + "].QuestionID"];
p.Answer = form["Questions[" + i + "].Answer"];
p.AnswerRequired = (form["Questions[" + i + "].AnswerRequired"] == "True") ? true : false;
p.completedBy = form["Questions[" + i + "].completedBy"];
p.completedOn=NullableParser.ParseNullableDateTime(form["Questions[" + i + "].CompletedOn"]);
p.DefaultText = form["Questions[" + i + "].DefaultText"];
p.EntryType = form["Questions[" + i + "].EntryType"];
p.HelpText = form["Questions[" + i + "].HelpText"];
p.OptionRequired = (form["Questions[" + i + "].OptionRequired"] == "True") ? true : false;
p.OptionValue = NullableParser.ParseNullableInt(form["Questions[" + i + "].OptionValue"]);
p.QuestionName = form["Questions[" + i + "].QuestionName"];
p.QuestionText = form["Questions[" + i + "].QuestionText"];
res.Add(p);
i++;
}
return res;
}
private bool HasGenericTypeBase(System.Type type, System.Type genericType)
{
while (type != typeof(object))
{
if (type.IsGenericType && type.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == genericType) return true;
type = type.BaseType;
}
return false;
}
}
My Model MetaData:
[MetadataType(typeof(QuestionEditModelMetaData))]
public partial class QuestionEditModel { }
public class QuestionEditModelMetaData
{
[Required]
public string QuestionID { get; set; }
[Required]
public string QuestionName { get; set; }
[Required]
public string QuestionText { get; set; }
[Required]
public string DefaultText { get; set; }
[Required]
public string EntryType { get; set; }
[Required]
public string HelpText { get; set; }
public Boolean AnswerRequired { get; set; }
public Boolean OptionRequired { get; set; }
//[RequiredIfTrue("AnswerRequired")]
[Required]
public string Answer { get; set; }
[RequiredIfTrue("OptionRequired")]
public int? OptionValue { get; set; }
public string completedBy { get; set; }
public DateTime? completedOn { get; set; }
public List<Option> options { get; set; }
}
The RequiredIfTrue attribute is from the MVC Foolproof Validation library. Apparently it isn't quite foolproof enough!