FluentValidation rule for null object

Question

I\'ve been trying to work out how to create a FluentValidation rule that checks if the instance of an object it\'s validating is not null, prior to validating it\'s properti

Answer 1

As the above solutions didn't work for me (FluentValidation, Version=6.2.1.0 for Net45), I am posting what I did. This is just a simple replacement/wrapper for ValidateAndThrow extension method.

public static class ValidatorExtensions
{
    public static void ValidateAndThrowNotNull(this IValidator validator, T instance)
    {
        if (instance == null)
        {
            var validationResult = new ValidationResult(new[] { new ValidationFailure("", "Instance cannot be null") });
            throw new ValidationException(validationResult.Errors);
        }
        validator.ValidateAndThrow(instance);
    }
}