This also fixes#1503.
Currently all model binders except mutable object binder are independent of validation code. The mutable object binder which needs to do some validation ( for scenarios involving [BindRequired] and [BindNever]).
We would be going with an approach where required validaiton happens in input formatters and model binders.
This is needed as validation for value types can best be done at creation time.
Followup PRs:
Introduce support for skipping validation (and not binding) for a particular property/type etc.
Changes here are all focused around MaxModelErrors on
ModelStateDictionary.
MaxAllowedErrors now defaults to 200 (same as options). This means that
constructing a new ModelStateDictionary with the default constructor will
use this default. There's a new constructor for creating a
MaxAllowedErrors with a non-default value.
The ControllerActionArgumentBinder is now responsible for setting the
value from options onto ActionContext.ModelState. This results in better
layering and guarantees the option is respected if someone uses
extensibility to call model binding.
ModelStateDictionary.CanAddErrors is renamed to MaxErrorsReached. We
wanted to change the behavior of this property, but realized that it's
very useful inside the model validation code, so opted to renamed.
There's also a bunch of doc cleanup inside ModelStateDictionary to
simplify things and improve clarity.
- #EngineeringDay
- Total replaced: 660 Matching files: 270 in *.cs
- Total replaced: 250 Matching files: 32 in all other files
- Total replaced: 22 Matching files: 8 in a few stragglers
Did not change files under following directories
- test\Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Razor.Host.Test\TestFiles\Output
- test\Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.FunctionalTests\compiler\resources
- test\WebSites\TagHelpersWebSite
(Razor generates trailing whitespace in a case or two)
There are several portions of model validation that attempt to avoid
revalidating if a field has been validated. However the behavior of
ModelStateDictionary makes it difficult to distinguish between an
unvalidated field and a field without validation errors. This change
resolves this issue by letting the caller distinguish between the two
cases.
Henk Mollema
Kirthi Krishnamraju
N. Taylor Mullen
Harsh Gupta
Ajay Bhargav Baaskaran
Ryan Nowak
Doug Bunting
Pranav K
Andrew Peters
sornaks