Question

I have a Person class. A person has a name and a salutation. Salutation is another table in the database (I inherited the database).

In the UI, I want the Salutation to be a required field. Here’s what my model looks like:

public partial class Person
    {
        public virtual string Id { get; set; }

        public virtual Nullable<long> SalutationId { get; set; }

        [Required]
        public virtual Salutation Salutation { get; set; }

        public virtual string FirstName { get; set; }

        [DisplayName("Last Name")]
        public virtual string LastName { get; set; }
    }

    public partial class Salutation
    {
        public virtual long Id { get; set; }

        public virtual string SalutationName { get; set; }

        public virtual string Status { get; set; }

        public virtual ICollection<Person> People { get; set; }
    }

Is this correct? I am still getting a validation error that says “Salutation is a required field,” even when I have entered Salutation.

All this started just an hour ago, until when everything was working fine.

I would’ve thrashed the issue out myself if I had time to think and wasn’t chasing a deadline. Strange what pressure does to your mind.

Answer 1

Short Answer: Issue is in the place where you put required validation for your Salutation.

Your salutation validation attributes should be placed inside the Salutation model.

Edit: in addition to that your model is using public virtual access modifier on each property. I would remove virtual if my model don’t need that.