Is there a way to use a regular expression to validate a string in an
object/soap message passed to a web service without performing a full
schema validation? What I would like to do is something like:


public class WebServiceRequest
{

private string _aString;

[RegexValidation( Pattern="<Regular Expression goes here>")]
public string AString
{
get{ return _aString; }
set{ _aString = value; }
}
}

Does such an attribute or other construct exist which causes the
property to be validated against a regular expression by the web
service infrastructure automatically when the soap request is
deserialized?

Steve

Which namespace does the attribute RegexValidationAttribute belong to?
I don't think it's in the SDK...

In anycase, WS engine would not validate the values even if you have a
custom attribute like this.



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"Steve James" <steve.s.james (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

The [RegexValidation( Pattern="<Regular Expression goes here>")]
attribute doesn't exist - I made it up. I probably didn't make it clear
in my original post, but this is the type of construct I would like to
use if there is one. Just as you can control Xml serialization and
deserialization with attributes such as XmlIgnore and XmlElement I
thought there may be something similar to match a property against a
regular expression.

Steve

Not possible.
WS Engine will not do any such checks.

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Happy Hacking,
Gaurav Vaish
http://www.mastergaurav.org
http://www.edujini.in
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"Steve James" <steve.s.james (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote