'Tis the kind of problem that pragmatism solves without a second's thought
:)

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Craig Richards <
craiganthonyricha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds good to me, sometimes we fight and resist too much. 😜
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 05/03/2012, at 13:27, David Burela <david.bur...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As much as I was trying to avoid it, I ended up just setting dummy values
> on the client side, which the domain service overwrites.
>
> On 2 March 2012 12:37, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> wrote:
>
>> Try  [DisplayFormat(ConvertEmptyStringToNull = false)]
>>
>> This post isn't exactly your scenario but it could be related to the
>> strings you have (nvarchar) and they might be defaulting to null?
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3129080/server-side-validation-of-a-required-string-property-in-mvc2-entity-framework-4
>>
>>
>> worth a try anyway :)
>>
>> the other way is to just set it on the client and then ignore what the
>> client provides.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:18 AM, David Burela <david.bur...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've got a weird problem.
>> >
>> > There are tables in a database with these additional columns
>> "CreatedById", "ModifiedById". (They are nvarchar, not null)
>> > There is then an entity framework model for this (again, strings, not
>> null).
>> > RIA services is used to share the entities with the client.
>> >
>> > The problem is in Silverlight side. If I create a new Product class,
>> display it in a Dataform to allow the user to edit price, etc. I can't
>> submit product to the domain service because validation fails "CreatedById
>> can not be null". It makes no sense to set those values on the client side
>> as they could spoof those files. I have logic on the domain service side
>> that looks at the current authenticated user and automatically sets those
>> fields.
>> >
>> > But I can't submit them because validation keeps failing on those 2
>> fields.
>> > Is there a [NotRequired] property I could put on the domain service
>> metadata file?
>> > -David Burela
>> >
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