Swallow exceptions when getting property values during validation #55
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It's impossible to know if a given property getter will throw during validation due to the state of the object, so just swallow any exception from getting the value. Fixes #54
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I don't think so? Certainly the bug report indicates they want the validation to continue, the issue is that for anything that has a getter that throws when in certain state, the walk will cause it to throw. I still feel like I'm missing something here. I might have to try out this scenario in MVC and step through what it does.
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Should be an opt in. I think blindly swallowing exceptions is bad. Maybe instead have a way to skip a property? (attribute?)
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Already have a way to opt-out of recursing at the property level: https://github.com/DamianEdwards/MiniValidation/blob/main/src/MiniValidation/SkipRecursionAttribute.cs
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What about adding an ValidationResult stating that a certain value could not be retrieved?
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It's impossible to know if a given property getter will throw during validation due to the state of the object, so just swallow any exception from getting the value.
Fixes #54