Toolkit works with ASP.NET Preview Release 3 Project Description The Validator Toolkit provides a set of validators for the new ASP.NET MVC framework to validate HTML forms on the client and server-side using validation sets. By defining a validation set, e.g. a LoginValidationSet class, the toolkit will generate code, in conjunction with the JavaScript library jQuery, to validate on the client-side and will use the same set of rules to validate on the server-side.
Basically, you will create a validation set class which derives from ValidationSet base class:
public class LoginValidationSet : ValidationSet
{
string Username = "";
string Password = "";
protected override ValidatorCollection GetValidators()
{
return new ValidatorCollection
(
new ValidateElement("username") { Required = true, MinLength = 5, MaxLength = 10 },
new ValidateElement("password") { Required = true, MinLength = 3, MaxLength = 10 }
);
}
protected override void OnValidate()
{
if(Username == "Bill" && Password == "Jobs")
throw new ValidatorException("username", "The username/password combination is not valid");
}
}
Then, you will attach it to the view and the HTML form processing action using the ValidationSetAttribute:
public void Login()
{
RenderView("Login");
}
[ValidationSet(typeof(LoginValidationSet))]
public void Authenticate()
{
if(this.ValidateForm())
RenderView("Ok");
else
RenderView("Login");
}
...
[ValidationSet(typeof(LoginValidationSet))]
public partial class LoginView : ViewPage
{
}
Then, you add the following script and methods to your view:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
updateSettingsForLoginValidationSet($('#loginForm').validate({rules:{
));
});
</script>
...
<form id="loginForm" action="/Authenticate" method="post">
...
</form>
<% this.RenderValidationSetScripts(); %>
}}
This all to validate the login HTML form on the client and server-side.
More documentation take a look at the article on CodeProject.com:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/MvcValidatorToolkit.aspx Please see the source code with the included sample site for more examples. You will also find a multi-form example showing how to use the toolkit in conjunction with multiple forms on one HTML page (view).
