Question

I have an asp.net mvc application that uses web service. I have various controllers that use the model provided by the web service. The problem is that client and server-side validation cannot be used as the class is not defined in my web application. How should I go about adding validation to this class?

Eg:

SomeController {
    someMethod(Service.User u) {
       if (ModelState.isValid) { // always valid as no annotations

Answer 1

Create a View Model and use that:

public class UserViewModel()
{
    public int UserId {get;set;}
    //more properties
}

Then map it back to the Service.User in the controller:

public ActionResult SomeMethod(UserViewModel viewModel)
{

}