How to handle Booleans/CheckBoxes in ASP.NET MVC 2 with DataAnnotations?

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I've got a view model like this:

public class SignUpViewModel
{
    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Bitte lesen und akzeptieren Sie die AGB.")]
    [DisplayName("Ich habe die AGB gelesen und akzeptiere diese.")]
    public bool AgreesWithTerms { get; set; }
}

The view markup code:

<%= Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.AgreesWithTerms) %>
<%= Html.LabelFor(m => m.AgreesWithTerms)%>

The result:

No validation is executed. That's okay so far because bool is a value type and never null. But even if I make AgreesWithTerms nullable it won't work because the compiler shouts

"Templates can be used only with field access, property access, single-dimension array index, or single-parameter custom indexer expressions."

So, what's the correct way to handle this?

data-annotations checkbox validation asp.net-mvc
12 Answers

I got it by creating a custom attribute:

public class BooleanRequiredAttribute : RequiredAttribute 
{
    public override bool IsValid(object value)
    {
        return value != null && (bool) value;
    }
}
user_2711500

"Required" is the wrong validation, here. You want something akin to "Must have the value true," which is not the same as "Required". What about using something like:

[RegularExpression("^true")]

?

Craig_Stuntz_77140
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