MVC :: Data Annotations Or Service Layer Validation?
Feb 10, 2010I'm creating a Asp.Net MVC application and I need help on whether I should chose Data Annotations or Service Layer Validation (e.g. if(Model.Name.Trim().Length == 0)?
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MVC :: Service Layer Validation
Feb 24, 2010I was going through the MVC samples regarding validation at the service layer and I have a question and probably a dumb question at that.
If you have the item below, the data is already in the product object and this is fine if you are expecting mappings with the correct data types, however presuming UnitsInStock is an Int, then if the user had typed in "banana," and considering that nothing has been validated on the server side at this point, then the app would have failed as soon as you tried to insert "banana" into UnitsInStock when the form returned from wherever at the controller layer.
protected bool ValidateProduct(Product productToValidate)
{
if (productToValidate.Name.Trim().Length == 0)[code]....
So my question is...is there a tricksy way (or best practice way) of dealing with this or do you have to use a "dirtyProduct" all strings object that you validate at the service layer and which returns a clean "Product" object if is "isValid" that can be passed into the repository?
Bypass Data Annotations Validation On MVC 2?
Aug 4, 2010I would like to know if it's possible to bypass the validation of one property which is using Data Annotations. Since I use the model across multiple pages, there's a check I need in some, but not in others, so I would like it to be ignored.
View 2 RepliesMVC :: How To Use Of Validation With Data Annotations In Model Classes
Dec 12, 2010I make use of validation with data annotations in my model classes. How do I make sure this annotations are not violated when I validate data in my business layer, before sending it to the DAL? I guess I don't want to define the validation rules in two places (model classes and in my BLL-classes)?
View 6 RepliesMVC :: Defining Validation Rules With Data Annotations?
Sep 24, 2010Defined RegisterModel class - with some validation rules for creating new users, and this works fine.
Then I get this class, strip few properties and wanted to reuse it as UserInfo_Form_Model, for editing user properites.
No changes, just deleted few items, renamed and reused in strongly typed View for editing.
And result of validation is: -
[DisplayName("Name")] works fine, showing correct
[StringLength(20, ErrorMessage = "xxxx...")] - not working, no message showed when suppose to be one
[Required(ErrorMessage = "xxxx.")] - not working, not showing messages when delete required values?
but (ModelState.IsValid) is false when I checked it in controller (it had to be because required value is missing)?
Is it this only partially correct and how this can be?
Well this is a bit frustrating because it cant be simpler than this and I cant make this simple code reuse.
Data Annotations For Validation At Least One Required Field?
Apr 26, 2010If I have a search object with a list of fields, can I, using the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations namespace, set it up to validate that at least one of the fields in the search is not null or empty? i.e All the fields are optional but at least one should always be entered.
View 2 RepliesJQuery Validation With Data Annotations In MVC2?
Apr 8, 2010I am trying to make some sense of this validation stuff in MVC2. I followed various walkthroughs, all them for betas/rcs... and I cant' get anythign to happen. Note: THIS JQUERY - NOT THE MS AJAX STUFF!I have referenced MicrosoftMvcJQueryValidation.js which i got got the mvc2 futures lib.
My model is:
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The form bit of my ViewPage<User>:
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As far as I can see the only additional thing that is being rendered is this:
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Which is interesting/annoying for a few reasons. Firstly all of my annotations appear to have been ignored.Secondly FormId isn't even marked as required, and as this rendered text was taken from a page loaded with a null Model (add mode) the FormId field isn't in the form. Finally, this doesn't even result in any actual validation occuring (on the client side). All the server side validation is working fine.See I am using PasswordFor instead of EditorFor. Because someone at MS testing dropped the ball there. Yes EditorFor renders a password field, but it behaves differently to PasswordFor.. the value of the Password field is sent to the client (set in the value
attribute of the field). Fail.
MVC :: Does Client-side Validation Using Data Annotations Work With Lists
Jan 27, 2010In my view data class I have a List.
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I have all the properties of the class Person as required using Data Annotations.
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In the View I loop the List like this:
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Generated HTML:
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Result:
Does not work at all.
Other things I've tried:
Tried using these HTML Helper methods instead:
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Generated output:
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Result:
Interestingly, when I trigger a validation on the first textbox, it fires simultaneously for all of the textboxes. The rest of the textboxes do not trigger validation at all.
Looking at the generated id and names for the textboxes and their corresponding error text span element, they areall identical.
Anyone figure out how to use Client Validation with Data Annotations with a List in the view data,
supporting Model Binding?
MVP - Presenter And The Service Layer - Where To Declare Service Layer
Mar 27, 2011I'm reading through Architecting Microsoft .Net Solutions for the Enterprise and I try to figure a couple of things out concerning the Presenter and the Service Layer.
First off, my Presenter needs to call methods that reside in the Service Layer, like initialize(), save() etc. But where do I place a reference to the service layer? Should it be at class level in the Presenter, or should I define a new service in the presenter methods itself?
Second - this isn't really clear in the book either - is this how the processing from the Presenter to the Service Layer works?:
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Business Layer Errors And Service Layer Handling?
Mar 7, 2011We're building a large web app that has numerous layers. In order to communicate to the business layer we're using a service layer that the web layer calls when data is needed. Unfortunately, it seems that if exceptions are thrown in the business layer, it seems that the services on the web side are wrapping the exceptions and re-throwing them. We're looking for a clear way to encapsulate the error and log it, without WCF wrapping a new exception around the original.
View 2 RepliesC# - N-layer Business/service Layer Design?
Jan 26, 2011I'm trying to reevaluate our n-layer architecture and would love to get some based on your experiences. Here is our typical .NET n-layer (sometimes n-tier) design.
Project.UI
Project.Services
Project.Business
Project.Model
Project.DataAccess
DataAccess typically consists of Entity Framework 4 and Repository classes. I attempt to follow the Aggregate Root concept in order to avoid having a repository for table, easier said than done in my experience. I tend to have ~70% match between Repositories and Tables.
Model usually consists of my Entity Framework 4 entities, I've been using Self-Tracking EF entities with success.
Business is what I struggle with the most. I typically have a Manager class for every Repository. This class will contain methods like .Add() which will perform business validation before forwarding down to repository.Add().
Services, typically I will only implement this if in fact I am looking to create a web service based solution. This layer will be tasked with marshaling requests/responses between DTOs and entities. And most importantly provide the more coarse grained interface. For example a TradingService.SubmitTrade(), which is really a facade for a business transaction which might include AccountManager.ValidateCash(), OrderManager.SubmitOrder(), etc.
My business layer is very entity centric, really it's just the glue between the entities and the repository, with validation in between. I've seen many designs where the Service Layer is what holds a reference to the repositories (in essence skipping the "business layer"). In essence it serves the same purpose as my Business layer, it does the validation, however its' responsibility (and naming) is a higher level, more coarse grained business transaction. Using the example above the TradingService.submitTrade() will not delegate to any business manager classes, it would itself query the necessary repositories, perform all the validation etc.
I like my design in a sense that I can reuse a business layer method in multiple service calls, however I hate the fact that for every repository I have a matching business layer manager, creating tons of extra work. Maybe the solution is a different type of grouping at the Business Layer level? For example combine individual Manager classes like PhoneManager and EmailManager (note I have Phone entities and Email entities) into a logical Manager class such as ContactsManager (note I don't have a "Contact" entity type). With methods such as ContactManager.GetPhones() and ContactManager.GetEmail(), etc.
Architecture :: Should The Unit Of Work Point To The Service Layer Or The Repository And Then The Repository Point To The Service Layer
Jan 26, 2011Just wondering, in an ASP.NET MVC3 environnement with entity framework. Should the Unit of Work point to the service layer or the repository (and then the repository point to the service layer) ?
Ive saw two example:
* One where the unit of work and repository both have an instance to the service layer..
Link: Entity Framework 4 CTP 4 / CTP 5 Generic Repository Pattern and Unit Testable
Doesn't use a service layer but its obvious that one could be use in that case.
* Second where the unit of work have an instance to the repository which have an instance to the service layer..
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What would be better ?
C# - Data Annotations Silverlight / Bind The Publisher To A Dataform And Have The Dataform Handle To Validation?
Aug 20, 2010I have a webservice that supplies data (Publisher Object) to a silverlight project.
I want to bind the Publisher to a dataform and have the dataform handle to validation.
I would like to achive this by using DataAnnotations.
My question is..
Can I or how do you amend the Publisher object (Generated by the webservice) to add the DataAnnotations
Mvc2 Data Annotations Validation (Client Side Works, Server Side Doesnt?
Aug 12, 2010I'm using an entity model with metadata annotations. My controller method looks like this...
if (!ModelState.IsValid)
{
return View(model);
}
else
{
UpdateModel(model);
repo.Save();
return RedirectToAction("Index");
}
If I enable client side validation in the view I'll get the error per the Attributes from the metadata class. If I take clientside validation out, error gets thrown from saving to the DB rather than return the view with an Error Summary.
This is the top portion of my view....
<% using (Html.BeginForm())
{%>
<%: Html.ValidationSummary(true) %>
I've tried running without debugging (ctrl + f5) in debug and release mode as well as setting breakpoints and Debugging (f5) but it just seems weird to get Client side validation without server side validation. What am I missing here?
.net - Data Access Layer As A Web Service?
Aug 18, 2010I have been researching for a while and have actually created a prototype ASP.NET web service as a DAL for a few ASP.NET 2.0 web sites. Just would like to ask for some insight/advice from more experienced developers out there who had successfully rolled out DAL as a web service. What are the drawbacks/risks to deploying DAL as a web service? What is the best way to secure or authenticate consumption of this web service? WCF is out of the question, I'll be coding in VS 2005.
View 4 RepliesWCF / ASMX :: Design A Web Service Layer On Top Of Db For Data Integration?
Dec 22, 2010We're doing a data integration project between a MS Sql Server database and a Microsoft CRM system (through its web services).
We're trying to build a "service" layer on top of the database. The design of our current solution is to use web services for CRUD, with xml being the format of data.
Views are created to consolidate related tables into one entity, and we query these views, using the "SELECT * FROM someview " + "For XML" to generated xml that will be returned from our web services.
For update we're trying to use the same approach - using SQL XML to map updates views, we have "instead of" triggers defined on top of these views, and in these "instead of" triggers we update the underlying tables.
The views/triggers are generated by tools so don't be too concerned with coding efficiency here...
what do you think if we use WCF data Provider to publish a enterprise data model (essentially DTOs) ? p.s., we don't have a BL layer for now, it's all in the stored procedures!!!
What's your opinion on this / any better design?
Calling Cached Data (in Service Layer) From A MVC View?
Jul 22, 2010We are adding tooltips to our ASP.NET MVC product, and we are getting the text from our database (technically, from a cached copy of the data). To do so, we created an Html Helper method:
<%=Html.Tooltip(Model.GetTooltipText(Tooltips.ClientPage.StartDateId))%>
The GetTooltipText method is in our BaseViewModel, and simply uses the passed in Id to fetch the tooltip from cache. Would this be considered a bad design? What other alternatives would we have?
Architecture :: How To Pass The Data Between Data Access Layer And Business Acces Layer
Jun 3, 2010here i have in 3-tier architecture , how to pass the data between DAL and BAL. i am using grid view to edit the data,when ever i click on the edit button all the corresponding fields should come to textboxes. i tried for delete ,it works fine bt not working to EDIT.
View 7 RepliesArchitecture :: Data Access Layer And Business Logic Layer?
Jun 24, 2010I am building a web site following the tutorials on asp.net. I am using dataset as data access lay, and writing classes to access the dataset. But the example is just basic ideas, how do I retrieve individual table column value in the business layer?For example, if I have a table called Product, I only want to find out what is the product name by product id. I did this in my ProductBLL:
public ProductBLL
{
public int GetProductName(string productId)
{
ProductDataSet.ProductDataTable prodData = Adapter.GetProductById(productId);
[code]...
Is there a better way, or am I doing this correctly? Can anybody give me a reference to a more complicated business logic model?
Architecture :: How The Data Pass From One Layer To Another Layer In Mvc Design Pattern
Apr 1, 2010how the data pass from one layer to another layer in mvc design pattern...
View 2 RepliesShould The Unit Of Work By Used By The Service Layer Or The Repository
Jan 26, 2011In an ASP.NET MVC3 environnement with entity framework. Should the Unit of Work point to the service layer or the repository (and then the repository point to the service layer) ?
Ive saw two example:
* One where the unit of work and repository both have an instance to the service layer..
Link: Entity Framework 4 CTP 4 / CTP 5 Generic Repository Pattern and Unit Testable
Doesn't use a service layer but its obvious that one could be use in that case.
* Second where the unit of work have an instance to the repository which have an instance to the service layer..
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MVC :: Passing Values From Controller To Service Layer?
Mar 24, 2011I am working on Tenant module that has to display following fileds, Tenant Id, Tenant Desc, Contact Person, Contact Phone. In the DB, these are designed as two separate tables - Tenant and Contact. Tenant table has Tenant Id, tenant Desc and Contact Id . Contact table has all the contact related properties. I am using EF as DAL.
To make my system loosely coupled, I have created a repository pattern to talk to EF entities. Also, for validation I am using service layer.
My repository layer has two interfaces and classes corresponding to Tenant and Contact.
public interface ITenantRepository : IRepository<Tenant> // IRepository<T> is a generic interface for CRUD operations
{
Tenant Get(int id);
IEnumerable<Tenanr> List() ;
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Designing System With Presentation Layer And Web Service Based API
Oct 19, 2010We are designing a system that has functionality that is essentially the same at the presentation layer and the exposed API layer. My question is what technique / strategy to use so we can get the most reuse out of our code with performance in mind? Here's a simplified example: A user can add a Customer via a web form. This will fire the Customer.Create() method. An API consumer / user can add a Customer via a SOAP / HTTP-POST to a web service which will call the Customer.Create() method.
Imagine these layers:
PRESENTATION
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WEB SERVICE API (Customer.Create() is available here
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FACADE Business Object Interface - Customer.Create() signature is here
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BUSINESS Business object - Customer.Create method() is fleshed out here
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DATA ACCESS - Writes data
The presentation layer SOAP calls the Create() web method, which calls the facade's Create() method which calls the business object's Create() method which wires via the data access layer.
Questions:
Is there a concern about performance in using the API's web services in our presentation layer, or are there alternatives to connect the presentation layer directly to the facade? If so, what technology to use (WCF, Remoting, Web Services, etc)?
MVC :: Using Data Annotations For Display Name?
Mar 23, 2010I am using VS2010 RC and i created a buddy class. My problem is that i cant seem to see the option to change the Display name of a column.i only see "displaycolumn" and "displayformat".
View 7 RepliesValidating Uniqueness With Data Annotations In Mvc
Oct 7, 2010I have various questions about validation using data annotations. I am using the following setup
asp.net mvc 2
entity framework 4
data annotations
Basically, I'm trying to get unique validation working and i'm a little confused. My models are as follows:
public class Buyer
{
public int Id { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "The email is required")]
public string Email { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage= "The name is required")]
public string Name { get; set; }
}
public class Seller
{
public int Id { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "The email is required")]
public string Email { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage= "The name is required")]
public string Name { get; set; }
}...............................................