MVC :: How To Reuse Model Metadata For Custom View Models
Oct 19, 2010
I'm working on an ASP.NET MVC 2 project with some business entities that have metadata dataannotations attributes applied to them (Validation attributes, Display attributes, etc.).
Something like:
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Using the metadata from different views is no problem, as long as I am using my business entities as viewmodels or as part of a viewmodel like this:
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However, sometimes I need to code a view for editing some, but not all fields of an entity. For those fields I want to reuse the metadata already specified in my user entity. The other fields should be ignored. I'm talking about custom view models like this:
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That's where I am running into problems. The custom view model above leads to an exception when the view is generated, because it has no password property.
The associated metadata type for type 'Zeiterfassung.Models.ViewModels.Users.UserNameViewModel+UserModel' contains the following unknown properties or fields: Password. make sure that the names of these members match the names of the properties on the main type.
Also, even if this exception did not occur, I expect to get into even more trouble with model validation on form submit because Password is marked as required in my business entity.
I can think of several workarounds, but none seem really ideal. In any case I can't change the database layout so that the password field would be in a separate entity in my example above.
I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction? I have a POCO model and I am using Code First CTP. In my application, I set the database to be recreated whenever the model changes.
I would like to write custom functionality to access the model (POCO) metadata same way as EF sees it and use that to generate some source files (using T4). I would like to access the processed model not having to worry about finding properties that hold primary keys or any other conventions (implicit or not). What is the way to go about it?
My case:I am developing an application that will run for multiple clients, each client has the ability to customize field displays and error messages.My issue:I created some custom attributes which inherit from DisplayNameAttribute, RequiredAttribute etc... and in them I am pulling out the resource needed.However it is only executed the once, so if my context changes it will be pulling the incorrectly cached value instead of pulling the new value need.Has anybody attempted to try something like this with the data annotations? Or any advice such as just don't use them for this scenario?
In my project I use Strong Types Views. Because I find it nice structured.
public abstract class AbstractViewData: View Page ( ICollection Foo; ) public class HTML Component View Data: AbstractViewData ( string Foo2; )
I have the same structure in my code, as in the corresponding pages.And here starts the problems. I would like to use HTML.Display (o => o.Foo) could be a customer for that matter.But my Strong Types Views have not posted Metadata Model into my classes.Like: Return View ( "FooView", customer); would.Is there a way to write some code that can solve this problem for me?
i am working an asp.net mvc 2 web app using model metadata and some of the model metadata don't seem to work when using the default Html.EditorForModel().For example, when applying the DefaultValue(1) and the ReadOnly(true) attributes on a model field, the field displayed on edit view has zero for its default value and it is not read only.
I would like to separate my attribute decoration(3-4 per field) by having them someplace else so that my code looks readable.Also the arguments passed to some attributes should come from a resource file.EG:[Required("Cannot proceed without entering *field_Name*")]
I need just [Required] Possible duplicate of this question(on which i couldn't resist offering a bounty) : Default resource for data annotations.
I've a product model that contains a list of description models. Every description model contains some string values because every product can have a description for every language. Here it is a semplified version of my models:
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So my view to insert a new product is like this:
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And my PartialProductDescription view is like this:
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Now, the views are perfect. With some Jquery UI I have a form with all the product properties and a tab panel with the language descriptions.
Unfortunatelly my POST action with the firm public ActionResult ProductNew(ProductModel model) has all the model property InternationalDescriptions that contain 2 empty models. So if I write something in the form in the first description textarea, model.InternationalDescrtiptions[0].Description is always empty.
So, how I can tell to MVC to take description textarea values and put them in the model?
I am trying to load a usercontrol with its own model, how does this work in practice? What I want really is to click on a button in a View which opens up a UserControl in the center of the page but there will be no sending my model to it because the model used on the page does not contain what I want it to display in the control (More detailed, the page is a memberpage and the uc is an admin page for approving images sent by other members). I've messed around with Inheritance but not really gotten any good results from that perhaps im doing it wrong). This is how it looks today:
The Model
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The Controller
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The Link
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The UserControl
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The Error
What can I do differently to make this thing work properly?
I have a parent View that uses a few partial views. Each partial view has its own custom model. The parent View is a model containing each of the partial view's model. In other words this parent View model is NOT flat.
How do i get POST data to bind with the parent's model object? Do i have to write a custom model binder?
Update I'm not binding to a collection of objects of the same type (ie: a collection of uploaded files). I'm binding to object that contains multiple of objects. For example:
I am implementing a view for Food. (ASP.NET MVC2) Then depending on the type (say fruit or vegetable for example) I will change the view.
Can I do this without creating a seperate view for fruit and vegetable?
I.e. Say we have url structure like [URL] and don't want [URL] [URL]
So I want to be able to change the view depending on the type. I'm using a tabstrip control from telerik, to give you an of the difference in the views - it'd just be say - not displaying one particular tab for Veg, and displaying it if fruit, for example.
Can a view accept two different view models ? so when we hit [URL] the code determines what type the object is (Fruit or Vegetable) then sends either FruitViewModel or VegetableViewModel ? If I just send one viewmodel how can I control the logic to display or not display certain things in the view?
I'n trying to setup a view template dynamically using a foreach loop. The view template is as follows:
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My metadata class is as follows:
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The partial seems to render the labels correctly, displying the appropriate name for the fiields that I have annotated. However the value of the fields is always set to the class property name itself rather than the value of the given record itself.Now I'm pretty sure my problem is something stupid, but I can't see what I am missing. I followed Brad Wilson's guide here adjusting it for Razor's syntax:http://bradwilson.typepad.com/blog/2009/10/aspnet-mvc-2-templates-part-4-custom-object-templates.html
How do I display more than one model per view? The above line limits me to only display UserProfiles. I want to also display other models, like UserJob and etc....how would I go about doing so?
I want to use RenderPartial twice in my view with different models associated. The problem is that some properties are present in both models (nickname, password). They have no prefix, so even the id's or names are equal in the output. Now, if I have model errors for nickname or password, both fields get highlighted.
I'm trying to develop my application and I've got a master page where I'm planning to create a div container, where my "news" will be loaded from my database and will be shown always on a main site. Then inside of the main placeholder I'm planning to load some extra data too from my database... and there's the question: how to solve that ? is there any possibility to pass a model to a master page ? or two viemodels to a view page inside the main placeholder on my page ? (one with news, and other containing some other data).
I have one view page.now what i want to do,i want to bind two models to same view.
I have to bind two different models to single view.
I have bind view with storngly type with Department model First display all the Department, now on click of Department i have to show the Courses associated with that Department.
I am having two models User and Address. In the create User view apart from the user information, the user can add one or more addresses to himself. So is there a way to do model based validation for multiple models in the same time ?
I have a requirement where i need to use Master Class (a class in my model) as ViewMaster's Model and the View using MasterDetail (another model). i use them in this form and View in this form
The model item passed into the dictionary is of type 'Models.GeneralMasterModel', but this dictionary requires a model item of type 'Models.MasterNavigationModel'.
my requirement is like this, the viewmaster is of three column layout, first column showing an IEnumerable containing some navigation links, the third column contains an IEnumerable of MasterDetail class depending on the Master object clicked, and the center column is the content place holder for displaying child views (for editing, displaying selected masterdetail). this view's model will be deferent for each masterdetail selected.
How do you handle multiple models in a view?. I have 2 tables. Member and MemberAddress
Member class contains Collection of MemberAddresses since a single member may have a billing and shipping address:
public class Member { public virtual int MemberId { get; set; } public virtual string Username { get; set; } public virtual bool IsActive { get; set; } public virtual bool IsSame { get; set; }
I'm trying to learn the ropes of ASP.NET MVC and so far so good. One thing which I haven't seen addressed yet is the 'right' or most elegant way to pass multiple data models to a view. To help put the question in context, take this example: Say I was making a blog. When I log in I want the home screen to display a list of all new unapproved comments, as well as a list of recently registered users, and a list of the most recently submitted blog posts.
Most discussions I've seen suggest strongly-typing the view page so it can be called with something like "return View(RecentComments)" and iterate through the comments in the view, or to cast the data model like "var NewUsers = (MembershipUserCollection) ViewData.Model". What I'm ideally after is the 'right', or at least a 'right-enough', way of passing multiple models while still maintaining appropriate logic separation.
I am not sure why this happens, but when I have an Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.SomeObject.SomeProperty), when I post, the property of that object is always null.
When I look at the markup generated, I see <input type="text" name="SomeObject_SomeProperty" id="SomeObject.SomeProperty" value = "" />
If I change the helper to Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.SomeObject.SomeProperty, new {id = "SomeProperty"}) the controller is then able to pick the value up. Why is this happening? I feel as though I shouldn't have to be specifiying the id for the textbox as it works when fine when not using child objects on a view model, IE <%: HtmlTextBoxFor(model => model.SomeProperty) %>.
