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Reputation: 2441

Decimal validation in View

I am trying to make an example MvcMusicStore application from MSDN. My code of Model class is:

    public class Album
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }

        public int GenreId { get; set; }
        public int ArtistId { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "An Album Title is required")]
        [StringLength(160)]
        public string Title { get; set; }

        [Required(ErrorMessage = "Price is required")]
        [Range(0.01, double.MaxValue, ErrorMessage = "Price must be positive")]
        public decimal Price { get; set; }

        [DisplayName("Album Art URL")]
        [StringLength(1024)]
        public string AlbumArtUrl { get; set; }


        public virtual Genre Genre { get; set; }
        public virtual Artist Artist { get; set; }
    }

And I generated the code for Controller by Scaffolding (CRUD template). But I have got problem with validation of Price in my View. This is the fragment of my Razor code in view:

    <div class="editor-label">
        @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Price)
    </div>
    <div class="editor-field">
        @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Price)
        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Price)
    </div>

Everything looks good, client-side validation works as expected, but problem lies by the server-side validation. This is the method code in Controller:

    [HttpPost]
    [ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
    public ActionResult Create(Album album)
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {
            db.Albums.Add(album);
            db.SaveChanges();
            return RedirectToAction("Index");
        }

        ViewBag.GenreId = new SelectList(db.Genres, "Id", "Name", album.GenreId);
        ViewBag.ArtistId = new SelectList(db.Artists, "Id", "Name", album.ArtistId);
        return View(album);
    }

In the beginning of this method I inserted a break point. Debugger says that album.Price always equals 0. I suppose it is translation from text in textbox to decimal problem in Controller's method. I always inserted values point separated such as 10.99, 12.65, 19.99, etc. It only works with integer values like 3, 10, 14, etc.

How to solve it?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3058

Answers (1)

Darin Dimitrov
Darin Dimitrov

Reputation: 1038710

You could explicitly set the culture to some culture in which the decimal separator is .:

<globalization uiCulture="en-US" culture="en-US" />

Upvotes: 4

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