Is old value available during validation?

0	Hi, I was wondering if the old value of a property in the Entity is still available when the new value is being evaluated. I would need this to conditionally prevent changes to certain properties. We now use the Regards Paul validation asked Sep 03 '13 at 07:01 Paul Sinnema 261●88●88●96

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Hello Paul,

old value typically is not available because validation is delayed until transaction commit attempt or explicit user call to Session.Validate(). This means any changes to the entities are already applied at the moment of validation.

answered Sep 05 '13 at 03:53

Denis Krjuchkov
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I was afraid of that. We need to prevent changes after a state has changed. A way I thought would work is to compare old and new values and when they are not the same throw an exception. We now solved it in the onSettingFieldValue(). That is not a so clean solution in my opinion. It would be cleaner at the Validate() time. Any suggestions on how to cleanly solve this?

(Sep 05 '13 at 04:09) Paul Sinnema

Unfortunately that's all we have for such scenario.

Our standard validators support ConstrainMode.OnSetValue which does validation before assignment, but your case requires writing custom validation aspect which in turn requires a license for PostSharp.

Our future version would support such scenarios without any additional licenses.

(Sep 05 '13 at 04:34) Denis Krjuchkov

Ah, I'll add TODO's for this future version. Thanks.

(Sep 05 '13 at 08:24) Paul Sinnema

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