Validation failed for one or more entities. See 'EntityValidationErrors' property for more details [duplicate]

Answer 1

What i found...when i got 'EntityValidationErrors' error is that....i have a field in my database 'db1' in table 'tbladdress' as 'address1' which has size of 100 (i.e address varchar(100) null) and i was passing value more than 100 characters..and this leading to error while saving data to database....

So you must Check the data you are passing to the field.

Answer 2

Per @Slauma's answer and @Milton's suggestion I've extended our base class's custom save method with a try/catch that will handle (and hence log in our error logging!) these sorts of exceptions.

// Where `BaseDB` is your Entities object... (it could be `this` in a different design)
public void Save(bool? validateEntities = null)
{
    try
    {
        //Capture and set the validation state if we decide to
        bool validateOnSaveEnabledStartState = BaseDB.Configuration.ValidateOnSaveEnabled;
        if (validateEntities.HasValue)
            BaseDB.Configuration.ValidateOnSaveEnabled = validateEntities.Value;

        BaseDB.SaveChanges();

        //Revert the validation state when done
        if (validateEntities.HasValue)
            BaseDB.Configuration.ValidateOnSaveEnabled = validateOnSaveEnabledStartState;
    }
    catch (DbEntityValidationException e)
    {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        foreach (var eve in e.EntityValidationErrors)
        {
            sb.AppendLine(string.Format("Entity of type \"{0}\" in state \"{1}\" has the following validation errors:", 
                                            eve.Entry.Entity.GetType().Name,
                                            eve.Entry.State));
            foreach (var ve in eve.ValidationErrors)
            {
                sb.AppendLine(string.Format("- Property: \"{0}\", Error: \"{1}\"",
                                            ve.PropertyName,
                                            ve.ErrorMessage));
            }
        }
        throw new DbEntityValidationException(sb.ToString(), e);
    }
}

Answer 3

In debug, you can enter this in your QuickWatch expression evaluator entry field:

context.GetValidationErrors()

Answer 4

I faced this error before

when I tried to update specific field in my model in entity framwork

Letter letter = new Letter {ID = letterId, ExportNumber = letterExportNumber,EntityState = EntityState.Modified};
LetterService.ChangeExportNumberfor(letter);
//----------


public int ChangeExportNumber(Letter letter)
    {
        int result = 0;
        using (var db = ((LettersGeneratorEntities) GetContext()))
        {
            db.Letters.Attach(letter);
            db.Entry(letter).Property(x => x.ExportNumber).IsModified = true;
            result += db.SaveChanges();
        }
        return result;
    }

and according the above answers

I found the Validation message The SignerName field is required.

which pointing to field in my model

and when I checked my database schema I found

so off coure ValidationException has its right to raise

and according to this field I want it to be nullable, (I dont know how I messed it)

so I changed that field to allow Null, and by this my code will not give me this error again

so This error maybe will happened if you invalidate Your Data integrity of your database

Answer 5

The answer from @Slauma is really great but I found that it didnt't work when a ComplexType property was invalid.

For example, say you have a property Phone of the complex type PhoneNumber. If the AreaCode property is invalid, the property name in ve.PropertyNames is "Phone.AreaCode". This causes the call to eve.Entry.CurrentValues<object>(ve.PropertyName) to fail.

To fix this, you can split the property name at each ., then recurse through the resulting array of property names. Finally, when you arrive at the bottom of the chain, you can simply return the value of the property.

Below is @Slauma's FormattedDbEntityValidationException class with support for ComplexTypes.

Enjoy!

[Serializable]
public class FormattedDbEntityValidationException : Exception
{
    public FormattedDbEntityValidationException(DbEntityValidationException innerException) :
        base(null, innerException)
    {
    }

    public override string Message
    {
        get
        {
            var innerException = InnerException as DbEntityValidationException;
            if (innerException == null) return base.Message;

            var sb = new StringBuilder();

            sb.AppendLine();
            sb.AppendLine();
            foreach (var eve in innerException.EntityValidationErrors)
            {
                sb.AppendLine(string.Format("- Entity of type \"{0}\" in state \"{1}\" has the following validation errors:",
                    eve.Entry.Entity.GetType().FullName, eve.Entry.State));
                foreach (var ve in eve.ValidationErrors)
                {
                    object value;
                    if (ve.PropertyName.Contains("."))
                    {
                        var propertyChain = ve.PropertyName.Split('.');
                        var complexProperty = eve.Entry.CurrentValues.GetValue<DbPropertyValues>(propertyChain.First());
                        value = GetComplexPropertyValue(complexProperty, propertyChain.Skip(1).ToArray());
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        value = eve.Entry.CurrentValues.GetValue<object>(ve.PropertyName);
                    }
                    sb.AppendLine(string.Format("-- Property: \"{0}\", Value: \"{1}\", Error: \"{2}\"",
                        ve.PropertyName,
                        value,
                        ve.ErrorMessage));
                }
            }
            sb.AppendLine();

            return sb.ToString();
        }
    }

    private static object GetComplexPropertyValue(DbPropertyValues propertyValues, string[] propertyChain)
    {
        var propertyName = propertyChain.First();
        return propertyChain.Count() == 1 
            ? propertyValues[propertyName] 
            : GetComplexPropertyValue((DbPropertyValues)propertyValues[propertyName], propertyChain.Skip(1).ToArray());
    }
}

Answer 6

As mentioned in other posts, simply catch the exception in DbEntityValidationException class. Which will give you watever you required during error cases.

 try
 {
  ....
 }
 catch(DbEntityValidationException ex)
 {
  ....
 }