force Uppercase using EditorFor Razor view

Question

Trying to force text in certain fields in a view that is adding records to the DB via Entity framework to uppercase.

Can I do it in the view EditorFor or can I do it in the controller to all fields easily before firing db.SaveChanges()?

Do it in the controller using `ToUpper()`, unless there's a need for the user to see it in uppercase? — markpsmith, Feb 09 '15 at 17:12
Can I do that to all string fields when I do db.Travelers.Add(traveler); db.SaveChanges(); or would I have to do each string field differently? — Doug Farrell, Feb 09 '15 at 17:27
Using this approach you'd have to call `ToUpper` on each field. Alternatively you could create a custom Filter that acted on the incoming POST model. — markpsmith, Feb 09 '15 at 17:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 10 '15 at 12:15

You could loop through the properties on your ViewModel server side using a helper method.

public T ViewModelToUpper<T>(T viewModel) where T : class
{
    foreach (var property in viewModel.GetType().GetProperties())
    {
        var value = property.GetValue(viewModel, null);
        if (value is string)
        {
            property.SetValue(viewModel, value.ToString().ToUpper());
        }
    }

    return viewModel;
}

Then you can call viewModel = ClassName.ViewModelToUpper(viewModel). Now you don't have to worry about doing it for every string property as this will happen anyway.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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You can do this in the UI with jQuery if you'd like. It's a little weird from a user perspective to be typing and have everything converted to uppercases (I'd check my caps lock). Convert to uppercase as user types using javascript

Your other option, better IMO, is to do this in the controller. You can use ToUpper()on the strings. Keep Globalization in mind.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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answered Feb 09 '15 at 17:29

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The user is irrelevant at this point, it is being done in the db to adhear to a specific export format. – Doug Farrell Feb 09 '15 at 17:31
Can I do that to all string fields when I do db.Travelers.Add(traveler); db.SaveChanges(); or would I have to do each string field separately ? – – Doug Farrell Feb 09 '15 at 17:31
Well, you could do a partial class for the DB entity and put a method on it to do all the strings at once. Think: 'Travelers.Upper()' that goes through and does everything. Otherwise you'll do them individually. – Josh Feb 09 '15 at 17:47

force Uppercase using EditorFor Razor view

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