ASP.NET MVC 2 client-side validation rules not being created
- by Brant Bobby
MVC isn't generating the client-side validation rules for my viewmodel. The HTML just contains this:
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
if (!window.mvcClientValidationMetadata) { window.mvcClientValidationMetadata = []; }
window.mvcClientValidationMetadata.push({"Fields":[],"FormId":"form0","ReplaceValidationSummary":false});
//]]>
</script>
Note that Fields[] is empty!
My view is strongly-typed and uses the new strongly-typed HTML helpers (TextBoxFor(), etc).
View Model / Domain Model
public class ItemFormViewModel
{
public Item Item { get; set; }
[Required] [StringLength(100)] public string Whatever { get; set; } // for demo
}
[MetadataType(typeof(ItemMetadata))]
public class Item
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public string SKU { get; set; }
public int QuantityRequired { get; set; }
// etc.
}
public class ItemMetadata
{
[Required] [StringLength(100)] public string Name { get; set; }
[Required] [StringLength(50)] public string SKU { get; set; }
[Range(0, Int32.MaxValue)] public int QuantityRequired { get; set; }
// etc.
}
(I know I'm using a domain model as my / as part of my view model, which isn't a good practice, but disregard that for now.)
View
<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master"
Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<ItemFormViewModel>" %>
<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent" runat="server">
<h2>Editing item: <%= Html.Encode(Model.Item.Name) %></h2>
<% Html.EnableClientValidation(); %>
<%= Html.ValidationSummary("Could not save the item.") %>
<% using (Html.BeginForm()) { %>
<%= Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Item.Name) %>
<%= Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Item.SKU) %>
<%= Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Item.QuantityRequired) %>
<%= Html.HiddenFor(model => model.Item.ItemID) %>
<%= Html.TextBox("Whatever", Model.Whatever) %>
<input type="submit" value="Save" />
<% } %>
</asp:Content>
I included the Whatever property on the view model because I suspected that MVC wasn't recursively inspecting the sub-properties of ItemFormViewModel.Item, but even that isn't being validated? I've even tried delving into the MVC framework source code but have come up empty. What could be going on?
