I have one dirty solution.
public static class ModelStateErrorHandler
{
/// <summary>
/// Returns a Key/Value pair with all the errors in the model
/// according to the data annotation properties.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="errDictionary"></param>
/// <returns>
/// Key: Name of the property
/// Value: The error message returned from data annotation
/// </returns>
public static Dictionary<string, string> GetModelErrors(this ModelStateDictionary errDictionary)
{
var errors = new Dictionary<string, string>();
errDictionary.Where(k => k.Value.Errors.Count > 0).ForEach(i =>
{
var er = string.Join(", ", i.Value.Errors.Select(e => e.ErrorMessage).ToArray());
errors.Add(i.Key, er);
});
return errors;
}
public static string StringifyModelErrors(this ModelStateDictionary errDictionary)
{
var errorsBuilder = new StringBuilder();
var errors = errDictionary.GetModelErrors();
errors.ForEach(key => errorsBuilder.AppendFormat("{0}: {1} -", key.Key,key.Value));
return errorsBuilder.ToString();
}
}
For just in case someone need it i made and use the following static class in my projects
**Usage example:**
if (!ModelState.IsValid)
{
var errors = ModelState.GetModelErrors();
return Json(new { errors });
}
**Usings:**
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using WebGrease.Css.Extensions;
**Class:**
public static class ModelStateErrorHandler
{
/// <summary>
/// Returns a Key/Value pair with all the errors in the model
/// according to the data annotation properties.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="errDictionary"></param>
/// <returns>
/// Key: Name of the property
/// Value: The error message returned from data annotation
/// </returns>
public static Dictionary<string, string> GetModelErrors(this ModelStateDictionary errDictionary)
{
var errors = new Dictionary<string, string>();
errDictionary.Where(k => k.Value.Errors.Count > 0).ForEach(i =>
{
var er = string.Join(", ", i.Value.Errors.Select(e => e.ErrorMessage).ToArray());
errors.Add(i.Key, er);
});
return errors;
}
public static string StringifyModelErrors(this ModelStateDictionary errDictionary)
{
var errorsBuilder = new StringBuilder();
var errors = errDictionary.GetModelErrors();
errors.ForEach(key => errorsBuilder.AppendFormat("{0}: {1} -", key.Key,key.Value));
return errorsBuilder.ToString();
}
}
