Validation failed for one or more entities. See ‘EntityValidationErrors’ property for more details
Posted By: Anonymous
I am having this error when seeding my database with code first approach.
Validation failed for one or more entities. See ‘EntityValidationErrors’ property for more details.
To be honest I don’t know how to check the content of the validation errors. Visual Studio shows me that it’s an array with 8 objects, so 8 validation errors.
This was working with my previous model, but I made a few changes that I explain below:
- I had an enum called Status, I changed it to a class called Status
- I changed the class ApplicantsPositionHistory to have 2 foreign key to the same table
Excuse me for the long code, but I have to paste it all. The exception is thrown in the last line of the following code.
namespace Data.Model
{
public class Position
{
[DatabaseGenerated(System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)]
public int PositionID { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Position name is required.")]
[StringLength(20, MinimumLength = 3, ErrorMessage = "Name should not be longer than 20 characters.")]
[Display(Name = "Position name")]
public string name { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Number of years is required")]
[Display(Name = "Number of years")]
public int yearsExperienceRequired { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<ApplicantPosition> applicantPosition { get; set; }
}
public class Applicant
{
[DatabaseGenerated(System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)]
public int ApplicantID { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Name is required")]
[StringLength(20, MinimumLength = 3, ErrorMessage="Name should not be longer than 20 characters.")]
[Display(Name = "First and LastName")]
public string name { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Telephone number is required")]
[StringLength(10, MinimumLength = 3, ErrorMessage = "Telephone should not be longer than 20 characters.")]
[Display(Name = "Telephone Number")]
public string telephone { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Skype username is required")]
[StringLength(10, MinimumLength = 3, ErrorMessage = "Skype user should not be longer than 20 characters.")]
[Display(Name = "Skype Username")]
public string skypeuser { get; set; }
public byte[] photo { get; set; }
public virtual ICollection<ApplicantPosition> applicantPosition { get; set; }
}
public class ApplicantPosition
{
[Key]
[Column("ApplicantID", Order = 0)]
public int ApplicantID { get; set; }
[Key]
[Column("PositionID", Order = 1)]
public int PositionID { get; set; }
public virtual Position Position { get; set; }
public virtual Applicant Applicant { get; set; }
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Applied date is required")]
[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:d}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)]
[Display(Name = "Date applied")]
public DateTime appliedDate { get; set; }
[Column("StatusID", Order = 0)]
public int StatusID { get; set; }
public Status CurrentStatus { get; set; }
//[NotMapped]
//public int numberOfApplicantsApplied
//{
// get
// {
// int query =
// (from ap in Position
// where ap.Status == (int)Status.Applied
// select ap
// ).Count();
// return query;
// }
//}
}
public class Address
{
[StringLength(20, MinimumLength = 3, ErrorMessage = "Country should not be longer than 20 characters.")]
public string Country { get; set; }
[StringLength(20, MinimumLength = 3, ErrorMessage = "City should not be longer than 20 characters.")]
public string City { get; set; }
[StringLength(50, MinimumLength = 3, ErrorMessage = "Address should not be longer than 50 characters.")]
[Display(Name = "Address Line 1")]
public string AddressLine1 { get; set; }
[Display(Name = "Address Line 2")]
public string AddressLine2 { get; set; }
}
public class ApplicationPositionHistory
{
[DatabaseGenerated(System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)]
public int ApplicationPositionHistoryID { get; set; }
public ApplicantPosition applicantPosition { get; set; }
[Column("oldStatusID")]
public int oldStatusID { get; set; }
[Column("newStatusID")]
public int newStatusID { get; set; }
public Status oldStatus { get; set; }
public Status newStatus { get; set; }
[StringLength(500, MinimumLength = 3, ErrorMessage = "Comments should not be longer than 500 characters.")]
[Display(Name = "Comments")]
public string comments { get; set; }
[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:d}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)]
[Display(Name = "Date")]
public DateTime dateModified { get; set; }
}
public class Status
{
[DatabaseGenerated(System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity)]
public int StatusID { get; set; }
[StringLength(20, MinimumLength = 3, ErrorMessage = "Status should not be longer than 20 characters.")]
[Display(Name = "Status")]
public string status { get; set; }
}
}
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Data.Entity;
using System.IO;
namespace Data.Model
{
public class HRContextInitializer : DropCreateDatabaseAlways<HRContext>
{
protected override void Seed(HRContext context)
{
#region Status
Status applied = new Status() { status = "Applied" };
Status reviewedByHR = new Status() { status = "Reviewed By HR" };
Status approvedByHR = new Status() { status = "Approved by HR" };
Status rejectedByHR = new Status() { status = "Rejected by HR" };
Status assignedToTechnicalDepartment = new Status() { status = "Assigned to Technical Department" };
Status approvedByTechnicalDepartment = new Status() { status = "Approved by Technical Department" };
Status rejectedByTechnicalDepartment = new Status() { status = "Rejected by Technical Department" };
Status assignedToGeneralManager = new Status() { status = "Assigned to General Manager" };
Status approvedByGeneralManager = new Status() { status = "Approved by General Manager" };
Status rejectedByGeneralManager = new Status() { status = "Rejected by General Manager" };
context.Status.Add(applied);
context.Status.Add(reviewedByHR);
context.Status.Add(approvedByHR);
context.Status.Add(rejectedByHR);
context.Status.Add(assignedToTechnicalDepartment);
context.Status.Add(approvedByTechnicalDepartment);
context.Status.Add(rejectedByTechnicalDepartment);
context.Status.Add(assignedToGeneralManager);
context.Status.Add(approvedByGeneralManager);
context.Status.Add(rejectedByGeneralManager);
#endregion
#region Position
Position netdeveloper = new Position() { name = ".net developer", yearsExperienceRequired = 5 };
Position javadeveloper = new Position() { name = "java developer", yearsExperienceRequired = 5 };
context.Positions.Add(netdeveloper);
context.Positions.Add(javadeveloper);
#endregion
#region Applicants
Applicant luis = new Applicant()
{
name = "Luis",
skypeuser = "le.valencia",
telephone = "0491732825",
photo = File.ReadAllBytes(@"C:UsersLUIS.SIMBIOSDocumentsVisual Studio 2010ProjectsSlnHRHRRazorFormsContentpictures1.jpg")
};
Applicant john = new Applicant()
{
name = "John",
skypeuser = "jo.valencia",
telephone = "3435343543",
photo = File.ReadAllBytes(@"C:UsersLUIS.SIMBIOSDocumentsVisual Studio 2010ProjectsSlnHRHRRazorFormsContentpictures2.jpg")
};
context.Applicants.Add(luis);
context.Applicants.Add(john);
#endregion
#region ApplicantsPositions
ApplicantPosition appicantposition = new ApplicantPosition()
{
Applicant = luis,
Position = netdeveloper,
appliedDate = DateTime.Today,
StatusID = 1
};
ApplicantPosition appicantposition2 = new ApplicantPosition()
{
Applicant = john,
Position = javadeveloper,
appliedDate = DateTime.Today,
StatusID = 1
};
context.ApplicantsPositions.Add(appicantposition);
context.ApplicantsPositions.Add(appicantposition2);
#endregion
context.SaveChanges(); --->> Error here
}
}
}
Solution
To be honest I don’t know how to check the content of the validation errors. Visual Studio shows me that it’s an array with 8 objects, so 8 validation errors.
Actually you should see the errors if you drill into that array in Visual studio during debug. But you can also catch the exception and then write out the errors to some logging store or the console:
try
{
// Your code...
// Could also be before try if you know the exception occurs in SaveChanges
context.SaveChanges();
}
catch (DbEntityValidationException e)
{
foreach (var eve in e.EntityValidationErrors)
{
Console.WriteLine("Entity of type "{0}"" in state ""{1}"" has the following validation errors:""
Answered By: Anonymous
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