[Solved] RadEditor and asp.net MVC dataannotation?

[Cha Garcia]

I am using DataAnnotation to validate my form in my view. My problem is the content from radeditor is ignored by DataAnnotations.
When I call  if (ModelState.IsValid) {}, it is always false?  Is there a work around to validate the radeditor along with the fields validated using dataAnnotations and ModelState.IsValid?  Additional note:  I have no problem getting the content from the radeditor using the code from: http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/mvc-using-editor.html.

My code:

Controller
==============

 [HttpPost]
        [SessionExpireFilter]
        public ActionResult Edit(Guid id, Letter letter)
        {

            // TODO: Add update logic here
            string editorBody = RadHelper.ExtractStringValue(Request, "CommentsEditor");
            letter.Body = editorBody;

            if (ModelState.IsValid)
            {
               
                ValidationFault theFault = null;
                var theClient = PCIIService.WorkflowClient();

                var theList = theClient.GetLetterTemplate(out theFault, id);
                var theLetter = theList.FirstOrDefault();

                theLetter.LetterTemplateId = id;
                theLetter.Name = letter.Name;
                theLetter.Body = letter.Body;
                theClient.UpdateLetterTemplate(out theFault, theLetter);
                return RedirectToAction("Index");
            }

            // Invalid
            return View(letter);
        }

    }

Model
================

namespace PCIIMSWorkflow.Models
{
    public class Letter
    {
        public Guid LetterTemplateId { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Name is Required ")]
        [StringLength(100, ErrorMessage = "Must be under 100 characters ")]
        public string Name { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Body is Required ")]
        public string Body { get; set; }

    }
}

View
=================

<%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/PCIIOpsPage.Master" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<PCIIMSWorkflow.Models.Letter>" %>
<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" TagPrefix="telerik" %>
<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="TitleContent" runat="server">
 Edit
</asp:Content>

<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent" runat="server">
<link href="../../Content/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<script src="../../Scripts/MicrosoftAjax.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../../Scripts/MicrosoftMvcValidation.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

    <% using (Html.BeginForm()) {%>

  <h3>Edit</h3>
  <h2><%= Html.Encode(ViewData["Message"]) %></h2>
 <form method="post" action ="/Letter/Edit/" runat="server">
 <table>
<tr><td><%=Html.Label("Letter Name")%> </td><td> <%=Html.TextBox("Name", Model.Name) %> <%= Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Name) %></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">
<%CommentsEditor.Content = Model.Body; %>
<asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager" runat="server" />
<telerik:RadEditor ID="CommentsEditor"  Runat="server" DialogHandlerUrl="~/Telerik.Web.UI.DialogHandler.axd"  StripFormattingOptions="MSWord" ToolbarMode="Default" Height="500px">
<Content>

</Content>
                                      
</telerik:RadEditor> <%= Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Body) %>

   <p>
                <input type="submit" value="Save" />
            </p>
</td></tr>                                        
</table>
</form>

       
               

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi Cha Garcia,

Unfortunately this is true. The content of RadEditor cannot be automatically validated - you have to do this manually. The reason is RadEditor does not output an input field whose name attribute matches the ID of the component. This is required for proper ASP.NET MVC validation.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

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