UserRegistration doesn't validate ConfirmPassword field

Gabor66 · October 4th, 2010, 10:02 PM

For the confirm password field we created a Partial UserRegistration class on the client with the confirm_password property.

For the validation of this field we are using a custom validation attribute (UserInformationValidation.ValidateConfirmPassword ).

Unfortunately we get the error message only in the ValidationSummary of the Dataform control, and the error info doesn't appear aside the invalid field and the label doesn't became red.

If for localization purposes we delete the validationsummary of the dataform control (as I think this part of the control an overkill), the system validates the field, but the user will not be notified at all.

Does anybody solved this problem?

Thanks

Gabor

Gabor66 · October 15th, 2010, 05:41 PM

I found the solution.

When WCF RIA services generates the code, attribute's validation is performed automatically, because the code for validation is implemented in the base Entity class.

If we create a partial class on the client with attributes, we have to force the system in the property setter to validate. For that purpose we have to use the Validator class static ValidateAttribute method:

Code:

        [Required]
        [Display (Name="ConfirmPassword")]
        [CustomValidation(typeof(UserInformationValidation), "ValidateConfirmPassword")]
        public string confirm_password
        {
            get
            {
                return confPswd;
            }
            set
            {
  
                ValidationContext context = new ValidationContext(this, null, null);
                context.MemberName = "confirm_password";

                Validator.ValidateProperty(value, context);

                confPswd = value;

                OnPropertyChanged(new PropertyChangedEventArgs("confirm_password"));
              }
          }

(Variable string confPswd declared at the class level)

Now the confirm_password validation works as any other attributes set on the server.

Thanks for read this

Gabor

A. Bettik · February 7th, 2013, 01:11 PM

Thanks Gabor66.
I read that

Quote:

The PropertyChanged event is encapsulated in the RaiseDataMemberChanged(). You can check this with any Decompiler (.NET Reflector, etc.).

and the code below seems to work.

Code:

namespace fitnesstrackerplus.Web.Data
{
    public partial class UserInformation
    {
        private string confPswd;
        //Client side only, so need custom validation also.

        //public string confirm_password { get; set; } --doesn't work, so try below custom get and set and explicit field confPswrd
        [Required]
        [Display(Name = "Confirm Password:")]
        [CustomValidation(typeof(UserInformationValidation), "ValidateConfirmPassword")]
        public string confirm_password
        {
            get
            {
                return confPswd;
            }
            set
            {
                    ValidationContext context = new ValidationContext(this, null, null);
                    context.MemberName = "confirm_password";
                    Validator.ValidateProperty(value, context);
                    confPswd = value;
                    //OnPropertyChanged(new PropertyChangedEventArgs("confirm_password"));
                    this.RaiseDataMemberChanged("confirm_password");
            }
        }
    }

    public class UserInformationValidation
     {
          public static ValidationResult ValidateConfirmPassword(string confirm_password, ValidationContext context)
          {
               UserInformation current = context.ObjectInstance as UserInformation;

               if (current.password != confirm_password)
                    return new ValidationResult("Confirm password and password fields must be the same.");

               return null;
          }
     }
}