Question

I am running on Castle’s trunk, and trying to unit-test a controller-action where validation of my DTO is set up. The controller inherits from SmartDispatcherController. The action and DTO look like:

 [AccessibleThrough(Verb.Post)] public void Register([DataBind(KeyReg, Validate = true)] UserRegisterDto dto) {     CancelView();     if (HasValidationError(dto))     {         Flash[KeyReg] = dto;         Errors = GetErrorSummary(dto);         RedirectToAction(KeyIndex);     }     else     {         var user = new User { Email = dto.Email };         // TODO: Need to associate User with an Owning Account         membership.AddUser(user, dto.Password);         RedirectToAction(KeyIndex);     } }  public class UserRegisterDto {     [ValidateNonEmpty]     [ValidateLength(1, 100)]     [ValidateEmail]     public string Email { get; set; }      [ValidateSameAs('Email')]     public string EmailConfirm { get; set; }      [ValidateNonEmpty]     public string Password { get; set; }      [ValidateSameAs('Password')]     public string PasswordConfirm { get; set; }      // TODO: validate is not empty Guid     [ValidateNonEmpty]     public string OwningAccountIdString { get; set; }      public Guid OwningAccountId     {         get { return new Guid(OwningAccountIdString); }     }      [ValidateLength(0, 40)]     public string FirstName { get; set; }      [ValidateLength(0, 60)]     public string LastName { get; set; } } 

The unit test looks like:

 [Fact] public void Register_ShouldPreventInValidRequest() {     PrepareController(home, ThorController.KeyPublic, ThorController.KeyHome, HomeController.KeyRegister);      var dto = new UserRegisterDto { Email = 'ff' };     home.Register(dto);      Assert.True(Response.WasRedirected);     Assert.Contains('/public/home/index', Response.RedirectedTo);     Assert.NotNull(home.Errors); } 

(‘home’ is my HomeController instance in the test; home.Errors holds a reference to an ErrorSummary which should be put into the Flash when there’s a validation error).

I am seeing the debugger think that dto has no validation error; it clearly should have several failures, the way the test runs.

I have read Joey’s blog post on this, but it looks like the Castle trunk has moved on since this was written. Can someone shed some light, please?

Answer 1

http://www.candland.net/blog/2008/07/09/WhatsNeededForCastleValidationToWork.aspx would appear to contain an answer.