Abstractions - Core MVC extensibility
Controllers - MVC implementations of .Abstractions and supporting
contracts
Infrastructure - General purpose support APIs. Metadata APIs that don't
fit clearly with a feature or with .Abstraction
- #2633
- do not leave `ModelBindingResult.ValidationNode` as `null` when we hit the `null` `RawValue` special case
- move two bits of code together to make the special case more obvious
- add `ModelValidationNode` (that suppresses validation) when `HttpRequestMessageModelBinder` is successful
- also suppress validation of `HttpRequestMEssage` properties
- suppress validation in `CancellationTokenModelBinder`, `FormCollectionModelBinder`, `FormCollectionModelBinder`
- do not create a `ModelValidationNode` when validation fails in `TypeConverterModelBinder`
nits:
- improve some doc comments
- add a quick `HttpRequestMessageModelBinderTest`
- #2825
- new class names align with existing types such as `HttpNotFoundResult` and `HttpNotFoundObjectResult`
- remove similar types from WebApiCompatShim and use replacements in `ApiController`
- `NegotiatedContentResult<T>` remains because Core doesn't have an exact replacement
nits:
- add missing periods in some `Controller` doc comments
- Removed TaskHelper and refactored with ClosedGenericMatcher
- Removed TypeHelper
- Moved custom encodings to InputFormatter
- Moved ObjectToDictionary to PropertyHelper
- Removed respective tests and test projects
- was trying out rules matching frequest PR comments (then)
- did a manual scan to find new instances of same issues
- "" -> `string.Empty`
- `String` -> `string` and similar
- fill empty XML doc elements
- ignored `JsonPatchDocument<TModel>`; just too many empty elements
- corrected missing / extra / out-of-order `<param>` descriptions
- `xml-docs-test` detects incorrect external references but not these local issues
This is the first step is some more refactorings to come in the future
with the goal of making MVC less monolythic. This makes the core of MVC
more reusable and more in line with the design of other vNext platform
components.
With this change, Mvc.Core contains just the minimal guts needed to build
a working app.
- Action Discovery
- Action Invoker
- Filters
- ObjectResult
- Model Metadata
- Model Binding
- Formatters
- Validation System
And yes, we are aware of the irony of 'minimal MVC' not including the view
system. The idea is that this is the kernel of an MVC app, and anything
real is layered on top.
The most noticable impact of this change is that MvcOptions has been blown
apart into more managable chunks. See the various ConfigureMvc*** methods.
The new Mvc.Extensions package is a placeholder while we evaluate and tune
the new definitions. Expect more changes as features are move to their own
packages, and in some case their own repositories.
For now there is no experience to bootstrap an Mvc.Core app. That's coming
next.
This change completely removes [Activate]. In a controller, you should
constructor injection or [FromServices] to access services.
To access context items (ActionContext, ActionBindingContext, root
ViewDataDictionary) you should use the respected attribute class.
We'd like to consider streamlining this further in the future by getting
down to a single injectable context for controllers, but for now this will
have to do.
This change simplifies InputFormatterContext/OutputFormatterContext by
swapping ActionContext for HttpContext.
This change is important especially for InputFormatterContext as it
decouples ModelState from ActionContext - allowing us to fix a
related bug where the _wrong_ ModelState can be passed in for a
TryUpdateModel operation.
Add SerializerSettings to MvcOptions and pass those options to the JsonInputFormatter and JsonOutputFormatter.
Remove custom contract resolver.
PR feedback
Pass JsonSerializerSettings to JsonPatchInputFormatter
PR feedback
Make DI JsonOutputFormatter formatter use MvcOptions SerializerSettings
Fix JsonPatchInputFormatter using null ContractResolver
Fix tests
This change removes reflection from validator providers, and instead
relies on cached metadata in in the modelmetadata.
In general this means that our MVPs don't need to cache anything, they
just look at the metadata and create what they need.
In the case of data-annotations, we update the model details provider to
add validation attributes to the modelmetadata. This would allow someone
to replace the DataAnnotationsValidatorProvider, but still use the
metadata in these attributes.
The change to the IModelValidatorProvider api (to use a context) is
intended to minimize allocations. Currently each validator provider needs
to return a list so you end up with N+1 lists (N validators + a final list
to compine them all). This change will let us just create the final list
(and a small context object). This is a very very high traffic API so it
seemed worth doing.
There's also some general massaging of namespaces and file locations.
- use named parameters more often
- add more comments about returned `ModelBindingResult`
- clean up `ModelBindingResult` doc comments
- cleanup `using`s
Nits:
- cleanup trailing whitespace
- change `retVal` -> `result` in `KeyValuePairModelBinderTest`
Pranav K
Ryan Nowak
Doug Bunting
Hao Kung
Ben Adams
Chris R
Troy Dai
Eilon Lipton
Victor Hurdugaci
Ajay Bhargav Baaskaran
Harsh Gupta
James Newton-King
N. Taylor Mullen
Henk Mollema