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A validation library for .NET that uses a fluent interface and lambda expressions for building strongly-typed validation rules.

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Supporting the project

If you use FluentValidation in a commercial project, please sponsor the project financially. FluentValidation is developed and supported by @JeremySkinner for free in his spare time and financial sponsorship helps keep the project going. You can sponsor the project via either GitHub sponsors or OpenCollective.

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Get Started

FluentValidation can be installed using the Nuget package manager or the dotnet CLI.

dotnet add package FluentValidation

For ASP.NET Core integration:

dotnet add package FluentValidation.AspNetCore

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FluentValidation
FluentValidation.AspNetCore

Example

using FluentValidation;

public class CustomerValidator: AbstractValidator<Customer> {
  public CustomerValidator() {
    RuleFor(x => x.Surname).NotEmpty();
    RuleFor(x => x.Forename).NotEmpty().WithMessage("Please specify a first name");
    RuleFor(x => x.Discount).NotEqual(0).When(x => x.HasDiscount);
    RuleFor(x => x.Address).Length(20, 250);
    RuleFor(x => x.Postcode).Must(BeAValidPostcode).WithMessage("Please specify a valid postcode");
  }

  private bool BeAValidPostcode(string postcode) {
    // custom postcode validating logic goes here
  }
}

var customer = new Customer();
var validator = new CustomerValidator();

// Execute the validator
ValidationResult results = validator.Validate(customer);

// Inspect any validation failures.
bool success = results.IsValid;
List<ValidationFailure> failures = results.Errors;

Documentation

Documentation can be found on the project site.

License, Copyright etc

FluentValidation has adopted the Code of Conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information see the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct.

FluentValidation is copyright © 2008-2022 .NET Foundation, Jeremy Skinner and other contributors and is licensed under the Apache2 license.

Sponsors

This project is sponsored by the following organisations whose support help keep this project going:

• Dotnetos for their financial sponsorship
• JetBrains for providing licenses to their developer tools

.NET Foundation

This project is part of the .NET Foundation.