Most efficient way to validate properties in Object

Question

Hi Friends. I have an object that is used to make a request to a web service. It has basic properties such as name, address, password etc. However, these properties might have certain restrictions on them as far as length of the string value and it must have valid characters, basically each property needs to be validated before I send the request object. I was wondering what is the most efficient way to validate the object. Thanks !!!

Answer 1

You could annotate your request class & use Validator.TryValidateObjects to get the validation errors (if any):

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

Model m = new Model {
	Name = "12345678910"
};

ICollection<ValidationResult> results = new List<ValidationResult>();

if (!Validator.TryValidateObject(m, new ValidationContext(m), results, validateAllProperties: true)) {
	foreach (ValidationResult result in results) {
		Console.WriteLine(result.ErrorMessage);
	}
}

class Model {
	[Required]
	[StringLength(10)]
	public string Name { get; set; }
}

Here's the list of available data annotations you can use:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.componentmodel.dataannotations?view=net-7.0