validation is working normal on local box, dev site but it is not happening on the staging and production sites. Both client side and server side validation is not happening. Both staging and production are load balanced but use sticky connection due to some other functional requirements.
I have checked the bin folder on all environments and i see the following two dlls there.
DataAnnotationsExtensions.ClientValidation.dll
DataAnnotationsExtensions.dll
On the server side, following should fail but it is not happening.
!TryValidateModel(model) || !ModelState.IsValid
This site use windows authentication.
Web.config
<appSettings file="Configs\AppSettings_LocalHost.config">
<add key="webpages:Version" value="3.0.0.0" />
<add key="webpages:Enabled" value="false" />
<add key="ClientValidationEnabled" value="true" />
<add key="UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled" value="true" />
</appSettings>
For testing purposes, i am not using bundles at this time. For the bundles, i even tested it with following
<location path="~/Content">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users ="*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
<location path="~/bundles">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users ="*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
<location path="~/Scripts">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users ="*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
And i have the following JS files referenced as well
<script src="/NetSite/Scripts/Core/jquery.validate.min.js?v=1.12" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/NetSite/Scripts/Core/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js?v=1.12" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/NetSite/Scripts/Custom/Validators.js?v=1.12" type="text/javascript"></script>
The app is MVC 5 and all has been added via the NuGet package. I don't have the MVC installed on the server. I have another MVC 5 app on these servers and validation is happening just fine.
And here is the form tag, the second working app uses the same form tag.
using (Html.BeginForm(ActionNames.Index, ControllerNames.Rankings, new { Area = AreaNames.MemberToolsReports }, FormMethod.Post, new { id = "RankingsSearchForm" }))
On the old staging and production boxes, validation was working but then we had MVC 3 installed on it.
Update - Controller Code
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using Project.BusinessEntities;
using Project.Common.Constants;
using Project.MvcBase;
using Project.Resources;
using Project.ServiceInterfaces;
using Project.ViewModels;
using Project.ViewModels.MemberToolReports;
using Microsoft.Practices.Unity;
using Project.Helpers.Helpers;
using Project.Helpers.IO;
namespace Project.Site.Areas.MemberToolsReports.Controllers
{
public class RankingsController : BaseController
{
#region PROPERTIES
[Dependency]
public IGeographyService GeographyServiceInstance { get; set; }
[Dependency]
public IRankingsService RankingsServiceInstance { get; set; }
[Dependency]
public IUtilityService UtilityServiceInstance { get; set; }
#endregion
#region ACTIONS
public ActionResult Index()
{
var states = getting states here
var key = String.Empty;
var search = new RankingSearch { Key = key };
var model = new RankingSearchViewModel { Search = search, StatesList = states };
return View(model);
}
[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult Index(RankingSearchViewModel model)
{
var errorModel = new ContentShowError { IsError = true };
var resultModel = new RankingsSearchResultsViewModel();
try
{
//TODO: remove extra code once data annotations issue is fixed on staging and prod
if (!Request.IsAjaxRequest())
{
errorModel.Message = base.GetDisplayMessage(ProcessingMessagesEnum.ErrorServicingRequest);
}
else if (!TryValidateModel(model) || !ModelState.IsValid)
{
errorModel.Message = base.GetDisplayMessage(ProcessingMessagesEnum.ErrorProcessingRequest);
}
else if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(model.Search.Key) &&
String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(model.Search.Institution) &&
String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(model.Search.State))
{
errorModel.Message = base.GetDisplayMessage(ProcessingMessagesEnum.NoCriteriaSpecified);
}
else
{
//default - debug code
errorModel.Message = base.GetDisplayMessage(ProcessingMessagesEnum.ErrorNoDataFound);
var results = RankingsServiceInstance.SearchRanking(model.Search);
if (results != null && results.Count > 0)
{
errorModel.IsError = false;
errorModel.Message = String.Empty;
//update result model
resultModel.Rankings = results;
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
errorModel.Message = base.GetDisplayMessage(ProcessingMessagesEnum.ErrorProcessingRequest);
base.LogException(ex);
}
ActionResult result = null;
result = errorModel.IsError ? PartialView(ViewNames.ErrorControl, errorModel) : PartialView(ViewNames.SearchResultsControl, resultModel);
return result;
}
#endregion
}
}
Update 2 - HTML Difference
Looks like validation attributes are not even making it to the html, as if the site doesn't even know that we are using validation. Right now, both, dev and staging sites have the same code.
Staging site
<input autofocus="autofocus" class="clearSearchFields" id="Search_Key" maxlength="6" name="Search.Key" size="6" type="text" value="" /><br />
Working dev site
<input autofocus="autofocus" class="clearSearchFields" data-val="true" data-val-length="Key must be 6 characters long" data-val-length-max="6" data-val-length-min="6" data-val-regex="Only alphanumeric (A-Z a-z 0-9) values are allowed" data-val-regex-pattern="[A-Za-z0-9]*" id="Search_Key" maxlength="6" name="Search.Key" size="6" type="text" value="" /><br />
<span class="field-validation-valid" data-valmsg-for="Search.Key" data-valmsg-replace="true"></span>
data-attributes in html elements? - Amirhossein Mehrvarzi