Model vs Input Validation for MVC 2 .NET

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MVC 2 comes with built-in support of Model validation but how do I do "input validation"? For example I have an interface of creating memo where I have populated the view with dynamic checkboxes corresponding to employees. The validation is straight forward i.e do not submit if no checkbox is selected.

I wonder if there is a way of doing such things in DataAnnotations. I have searched the internet and found that people have written a lot of code to validate password and confirm password validation just for the sake of doing it the nicer way.

My question is if there is a nicer way for my problem or should I just count number of checkboxes in my controller action and return error if no checkbox is selected?

Darin Dimitrov · Accepted Answer · 2010-06-21 08:27:53Z

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I would recommend you looking at the FluentValidation library which integrates nicely with ASP.NET MVC.

answered Jun 21, 2010 at 8:27

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Muhammad Adeel Zahid Over a year ago

Thanks Darin, could u plz refer some example or preferably a sample project to get started with FluentValidations

Darin Dimitrov Over a year ago

Take a look at the second link. It provides all that's necessary to get started. The documentation is also quite extensive.

Muhammad Adeel Zahid Over a year ago

Thanks Darin, i have tried using Fluent validation and it works great on server side but never shows up on client side using Microsoft validation. i searched about that and found that even xval provide limited support for fluent validation on client side. the rule i want to apply is RuleFor(x => x.Contact).EmailAddress().When(x => x.ContactType.Equals("Email")); which works on server side regards Adeel

Darin Dimitrov Over a year ago

In the link I provided it states that for client validation: at the moment, only the NotNull, NotEmpty, RegularExpression and Length validators are supported.

Muhammad Adeel Zahid Over a year ago

Thanks Darin, yes it does state that client side validation is supported for some trivial scenarios but what i want is to get complex validations on client side too. is there a way i can hook fluent validations json using jquery (preferably) or by some other js library. regards

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