I am building a Scheduling Screen and need to display a Time field for users to enter the time of day for the schedule.
I'm not sure if this is the best option, but I am using a TimeSpan for the field. To validate the input, I want to use the Range attribute and the DisplayFormat attribute.
When I debug and enter a seeming valid value, the Range attribute indicates an out of range error. Can anyone see what I am doing wrong? Is TimeSpan the proper type for this usage? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Model Class:
public class Schedule
{
public Schedule()
{
this.ScheduleTime = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0);
}
/// <summary>
/// The time of day for the schedule to run
/// </summary>
[Required, DataType(System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.DataType.Time),
Display(Name = "Schedule Time", Description = "Number of Hours and Minutes after Midnight Central Timezone"),
DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = @"{0:hh\:mm\:ss}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true),
Range(typeof(TimeSpan), "00:00", "23:59")]
public TimeSpan ScheduleTime { get; set; }
}
Error Message:
You know those times where you ask a question and shortly after the answer just appears right before you? This is one of those for me.
I found this SO post: why does ASP.Net MVC Range Attribute take a Type?
Which describes the issue as jQuery being unable to handle the Range expression so the Client Side Validation won't work, but the Server Side Validation will.
So I removed the client validation for this field with javascript:
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#ScheduleTime").rules('remove', 'range');
});
</script>
And now the validation works properly when checking the ModelState.IsValid
in the controller.