ASP.NET Core custom validation attribute localization

Question

I\'m trying to implement localization in a custom validation attribute in asp.net core 1.0. This is my simplified viewmodel:

public class EditPasswordViewMod         


        

Answer 1

The answer from Ramin is the correct answer. But I decided to take another path, so I don't have to write adapters and adapter providers for many cases.

The idea is to wrap your specific string localizer in a service interface, and get it from the validation attribute itself.

public class CPFAttribute: ValidationAttribute
{
    public CPFAttribute()
    {
    }

    protected override ValidationResult IsValid(object value, ValidationContext validationContext)
    {
        string cpf;

        try
        {
            cpf = (string)value;
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            return new ValidationResult(GetErrorMessage(validationContext));
        }

        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(cpf) || cpf.Length != 11 || !StringUtil.IsDigitsOnly(cpf))
        {
            return new ValidationResult(GetErrorMessage(validationContext));
        }

        return ValidationResult.Success;
    }

    private string GetErrorMessage(ValidationContext validationContext)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(ErrorMessage))
        {
            return "Invalid CPF";
        }

        ErrorMessageTranslationService errorTranslation = validationContext.GetService(typeof(ErrorMessageTranslationService)) as ErrorMessageTranslationService;
        return errorTranslation.GetLocalizedError(ErrorMessage);
    }
}

Then the service can be created as:

public class ErrorMessageTranslationService
{
    private readonly IStringLocalizer _sharedLocalizer;
    public ErrorMessageTranslationService(IStringLocalizer sharedLocalizer)
    {
        _sharedLocalizer = sharedLocalizer;
    }

    public string GetLocalizedError(string errorKey)
    {
        return _sharedLocalizer[errorKey];
    }
}

The service can be registered as a singleton, in the Startup class.

services.AddSingleton();

If these validation attributes need to be factored to another assembly, just create an interface for this translation service that can be referenced by all validation attributes you create.