Is there any way to disable the validation of inherited properties?

Question

I have the following entities for example:

public class BaseClass
{
    [Required]
    public virtual string DisplayName { get; set; }
}

public class FirstChildClass: BaseClass
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
}

public class SecondChildClas: BaseClass
{
   public int Id { get; set; }
}

Then i have the following viewmodel:

public class MyViewModel
{
    public FirstChildClass FirstProperty { get; set; }
    public SecondChildClass SecondProperty { get; set; }
}

In my View i have a form which submits the following properties FirstChildClass.Id and SecondChildClass.Id.

My problem is that the inherited DisplayName is added to my ModelState due to the [Required] attribute. I'd like to ignore the validation of inherited properties without removing them explicitly from the ModelState with Remove().

Is there any way to accomplish it?

Maybe it will helps you https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15957495/how-do-i-stop-the-required-annotation-from-being-inherited-on-overridden-field — Alexander, May 28 '20 at 10:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 28 '20 at 10:46

I would suggest not using inheritance here. What is BaseClass:

I have DisplayName and it should be Required but not always, it depends, looks in all derived classes to understand how I work.

If you really want to go that way check if you can make this property virtual, and add attribute only to one derived class.

Is there any way to disable the validation of inherited properties?

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