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C# ASP.NET MVC Forms Adding Form Validation Adding Server-Side Validations Using ModelState

What is wrong here ?

I thought I was doing as the question asked.

IssuesController.cs
using System.Web.Mvc;
using IssueReporter.Data;
using IssueReporter.Models;

namespace IssueReporter.Controllers
{
    public class IssuesController : Controller
    {
        private IssuesRepository _issuesRepository;

        public IssuesController()
        {
            _issuesRepository = new IssuesRepository();
        }

        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            return View();
        }

        public ActionResult Report()
        {
            var issue = new Issue();

            SetupDepartmentsSelectListItems();

            return View(issue);
        }

        [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult Report(Issue issue)
        {
            if (issue.Severity == Issue.SeverityLevel.Critical && string.IsNullOrEmpty(issue.Email))
            {
                // TODO Use the ModelState.AddModelError method to add an error message for the "Email" field.
                ModelState.AddModelError("Email", "The email is required for critical issues.");
            }

            if (ModelState.IsValid)
            {
                _issuesRepository.AddIssue(issue);

                return RedirectToAction("Index");
            }

            SetupDepartmentsSelectListItems();

            return View(issue);
        }

        private void SetupDepartmentsSelectListItems()
        {
            ViewBag.DepartmentsSelectListItems = new SelectList(
                Data.Data.Departments, "Id", "Name");
        }
    }
}

1 Answer

James Churchill
STAFF
James Churchill
Treehouse Teacher

Amy,

You're really close! When I copied and pasted your solution into the code challenge, this was the error message that I received:

In the 'Report' POST action method, are you calling the 'ModelState.AddModelError' method with an 'errorMessage' parameter value of 'The Email field is required for critical issues.'?

You're definitely calling the ModelState.AddModelError method, so that's not the problem. But are you passing the expected error message of "The Email field is required for critical issues."?

Thanks ~James