This change introduces a new property to ModelMetadata called
IsBindingRequired, which specifies whether or not a model value must be
present on the wire during model binding.
[DataMember(IsRequired = true)] is currently the only thing that will set
this property.
Updated tests and documentation for clarity on the difference in meaning
between MM.IsRequired and MM.IsBindingRequired. Moved setting for
IsRequired to ValidationMetadata which is a better fit.
Also added functional tests for [BindingBehavior] and [DataMember] in
model binding because they were totally missing.
The fix splits client validation and model validation into two separate hierarchies.
Introduced ClientModelValidatorProvider in MvcOptions, which can be iterated to produce IClientModelValidators.
As a result of this, HtmlGenerator code can be free of ActionBindingContext and directly consumes options.
This also means that we do not modify the client validations during resource filters.
This change caches the actual model metadata instances. Some profiling
showed we didn't go far enough, we were allocating a lot of ModelMetadata
+ ModelPropertyCollection instances.
- #438 part 1/2 and #2027 part 1/3
slight oddity in the XML docs
- unfortunately Roslyn seems to ignore `TypeInfo` being a subclass of `Type`
nit: use correct `warningsAsErrors` datatype in test project.json
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.
Separates the MMP into two phases:
1). Creation of the ModelMetadata, discovery of properties and attributes
(reflection) is part of the MMP
2). Lookup of details based on attributes is now part of another phase,
and has its results cached.
Users can now implements and register an IFooMetadataProvider to customize
a single aspect of metadata (see how data annotations does it).
Ryan Nowak
Harsh Gupta
Ajay Bhargav Baaskaran
Doug Bunting