Default value in an asp.net mvc view model

问题:

I have this model:

public class SearchModel
{
    [DefaultValue(true)]
    public bool IsMale { get; set; }
    [DefaultValue(true)]
    public bool IsFemale { get; set; }
}

But based on my research and answers here, DefaultValueAttribute does not actually set a default value. But those answers were from 2008, Is there an attribute or a better way than using a private field to set these values to true when passed to the view?

Heres the view anyways:

@using (Html.BeginForm("Search", "Users", FormMethod.Get))
{
<div>
    @Html.LabelFor(m => Model.IsMale)
    @Html.CheckBoxFor(m => Model.IsMale)
    <input type="submit" value="search"/>
</div>
}

回答1:

Set this in the constructor:

public class SearchModel
{
    public bool IsMale { get; set; }
    public bool IsFemale { get; set; }

    public SearchModel()
    { 
        IsMale = true;
        IsFemale = true;
    }
}

Then pass it to the view in your GET action:

[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Search()
{
    return new View(new SearchModel());
}

回答2:

Create a base class for your ViewModels with the following constructor code which will apply the DefaultValueAttributeswhen any inheriting model is created.

public abstract class BaseViewModel
{
    protected BaseViewModel()
    {
        // apply any DefaultValueAttribute settings to their properties
        var propertyInfos = this.GetType().GetProperties();
        foreach (var propertyInfo in propertyInfos)
        {
            var attributes = propertyInfo.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DefaultValueAttribute), true);
            if (attributes.Any())
            {
                var attribute = (DefaultValueAttribute) attributes[0];
                propertyInfo.SetValue(this, attribute.Value, null);
            }
        }
    }
}

And inherit from this in your ViewModels:

public class SearchModel : BaseViewModel
{
    [DefaultValue(true)]
    public bool IsMale { get; set; }
    [DefaultValue(true)]
    public bool IsFemale { get; set; }
}

回答3:

Use specific value:

[Display(Name = "Date")]
public DateTime EntryDate {get; set;} = DateTime.Now;//by C# v6

回答4:

What will you have? You'll probably end up with a default search and a search that you load from somewhere. Default search requires a default constructor, so make one like Dismissile has already suggested.

If you load the search criteria from elsewhere, then you should probably have some mapping logic.

回答5:

In case you need to post the same model to server the solution with having default bool value in constructor would not be viable for you. Let's imagine that you have following model:

public class SearchModel
{
    public bool IsMale { get; set; }

    public SearchModel()
    { 
        IsMale = true;
    }
}

On view you would have something like this:

@Html.CheckBoxFor(n => n.IsMale)

The problem is when user uncheck this checkbox and post it to the server - you would end up with default value set up in constructor (which in this case is true).

So in this case I would end up with just specifying default value on view:

@Html.CheckBoxFor(n => n.IsMale, new { @checked = "checked" })

回答6:

Just wanted to remark on @Dismissile's answer, since I can't edit his answer nor add a comment to it to point out that the View constructor call new will result in an error (tested on Visual Studio 2015), which makes sense since we are just spawning an instance of the model, and not of the View class. The correct line of code would be:

return View(new SearchModel());