CSLA 2.0 Rules not breaking?

KickTheSky posted on Monday, February 11, 2008

 Hi,

I am trying to set up a prototype of a CSLA project so that we can use this for an upcoming project.  Everything works really well except for one thing.  The rules never break on the business objects I am creating.  Here is an example of some rules I declared for a simple state/country class...

protected override void AddBusinessRules()
        {
            ValidationRules.AddRule(new RuleHandler(CommonRules.StringRequired), "StateCode");
            ValidationRules.AddRule(new RuleHandler(CommonRules.StringMaxLength),
              new CommonRules.MaxLengthRuleArgs("StateCode", 5));
            ValidationRules.AddRule(new RuleHandler(CommonRules.StringRequired), "Name");
            ValidationRules.AddRule(new RuleHandler(CommonRules.StringMaxLength),
              new CommonRules.MaxLengthRuleArgs("Name", 50));
            ValidationRules.AddRule(new RuleHandler(CommonRules.StringRequired), "CountryCode");
            ValidationRules.AddRule(new RuleHandler(CommonRules.StringMaxLength),
              new CommonRules.MaxLengthRuleArgs("CountryCode", 5));
        }

When NewState() is called, none of the rules are broken.  If I make an edit to one of the fields and the others are still blank, it is still valid and no rules are broken.  What am I missing?

webjedi replied on Monday, February 11, 2008

Generally the rules are only checked at time the object is created (using the ctor). Check that in your DataPortal_Create for the object you are asserting the rules like this:

ValidationRules.CheckRules();

After the object has been created you could call this as the last step of the set part of the property.  I think...haven't tried that myself.