Dependency-Injected Validation in Web API

Question

In MVC, I can create a Model Validator which can take Dependencies. I normally use FluentValidation for this. This allows me to, for example, check on account registration tha

Answer 1

This certainly isn't recommended as the class is internal, but you can remove the IModelValidatorCache services in your WebApi config.

public static class WebApiConfig
{
    public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
    {
        config.Services.Clear(Type.GetType("System.Web.Http.Validation.IModelValidatorCache, System.Web.Http"));
    }
}