Question

Given a validator class that looks like this

 public class SomeValidator : AbstractValidator<SomeObject>
 {
      public SomeValidator(){
           RuleSet("First",
                () => {
                     RuleFor(so => so.SomeMember).SetValidator(new SomeMemberValidator())
           });
           RuleSet("Second",
                () => ... Code Does Not Matter ... );
           RuleSet("Third",
                () => ... Code Does Not Matter ... );
      }
 }

And another to do the inner member validation

 public class SomeMemberValidator: AbstractValidator<SomeMember>
 {
      public SomeValidator(){
           RuleSet("Fourth",
                () => {
                     ... Code Does Not Matter ...
           });
      }
 }

Question is, I want to run specific rulesets: “First”, “Second”, and “Fourth”. I don’t want “Third” to run.

Given the Validate method signature only takes a single ruleset argument I don’t see any way to do this. There is “*”, but I don’t want to run all the rules.

Please help.

Answer 1

You can execute more than one RuleSet, but I don’t think you can execute the inner RuleSet.

validator.Validate(new ValidationContext<SomeObject>(person, new PropertyChain(), new RulesetValidatorSelector("First", "Second", "Fourth")));

Source

The other option is to investigate the source code and try to think a way of doing it. The third parameter of the ValidationContext is an interface, IValidatorSelector, maybe you can have some luck with a custom class.