MVC Core and EF Core manually parse date time in input text box

Question

I have a MVC core project with EF core data context. I've used scaffolding to create CRUD. I just want to know is there anyway to use my custom logic for parsing datetime in text box when the user hit save?

Currently I have this in Create page:

<div class="form-group col-md-6 col-xs-12">
    <label asp-for="Lead.BDayDateTime" class="control-label"></label>
    <input asp-for="Lead.BDayDateTime" class="form-control" />
    <span asp-validation-for="Lead.BDayDateTime" class="text-danger"></span>
</div>

and its the definition in my model:

[Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter year of birth or birthday (ex. 1363, 1984, 1984-09-23, 1363-07-01)")]
[Display(Name = "Birthday", Prompt = "Birth Year or Birthday", Description = "Please enter year of birth or birthday (ex. 1363, 1984, 1984-09-23, 1363-07-01)")]
[DisplayFormat(NullDisplayText = "Not Entered", DataFormatString = "{0:yyyy}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)]
public DateTime BDayDateTime { get; set; }

I want to manually parse datetime, so the user can enter non-Gregorian datetime values (and I'll convert them to Gregorian before saving to database).

Answer 1

I found a solution to parse my custom date string to DateTime using TypeConverter:

I created a custom TypeConverter:

public class JalaliAwareDateConverter : TypeConverter
{
    public override bool CanConvertFrom(ITypeDescriptorContext context,
        Type sourceType)
    {
        if (sourceType == typeof(string))
            return true;
        return base.CanConvertFrom(context, sourceType);
    }

    public override object ConvertFrom(ITypeDescriptorContext context, CultureInfo culture, object value)
    {
        if (value is string s)
        {
            return s.ParseDateString(); // My custom parser
        }

        return base.ConvertFrom(context, culture, value);
    }
}

and registered it in Startup.cs (Based on my experience and thanks to this answer and @zdeněk comment, TypeConverter attribute do not work in asp.net core):

TypeDescriptor.AddAttributes(typeof(DateTime), new TypeConverterAttribute(typeof(JalaliAwareDateConverter)));

Now, I have valid value in DateTime property, but the validation still fails. This problem was because of Regular Expression validator which was trying to validate DateTime object! Removed the regex validator and voila, it works!