ASP.NET MVC - Display name for the whole model

Question

I know there's a DisplayName and Display for model properties like so :

public class MyModel
{
    [Display(Name = "Licence")]
    public string Licence { get; set; }
}

But is there a Display for the whole model ? May be something like this :

[Display(Name = "My beautiful model")]
public class MyModel
{
...

And if so, how to access it from HTML ?

Are you trying to control JSON serialization? If so, can you include some of your code. — timothyclifford, Jul 14 '15 at 12:20
I have a CRUD table, and I want the title to be read from the model, not hard-coded in the HTML — Mehdiway, Jul 14 '15 at 12:20
Just use the viewbag,. ie. ViewBage.PageTitle = "Whatever..." and in the view @ViewBag.PageTitle , the value frome page title is set when you get your model data in the controller. — Thorarins, Jul 14 '15 at 12:28
You could use this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5015911/3999513 — Dmitri Trofimov, Jul 14 '15 at 12:28
I would be happy if whoever understood what is "whole model" could share this with me. — Veverke, Jul 14 '15 at 12:45
@Mehdiway: what do you mean by "a title for the model" ? Can it be thought as an ordinary property in the model ? If so, why do not you add it ? And if you add, then what will be the problem ? — Veverke, Jul 14 '15 at 14:54
I could do what @Canvas did in his answer but that's not the *official* way to do it, just a workaround — Mehdiway, Jul 14 '15 at 20:22

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 14 '15 at 12:23

You could add another property to your model called Title and then in the get set that like so

public string PageTitle
{
    get
    {
        return "Attribut de licence";
    }
}

This could work. This is quite crude, but I don't think you can add a display attribute to a model itself.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 14 '15 at 12:36

1

Have you tried to override ToString method ?

public override string ToString()
{
    var sb = new StringBuilder();
    sb.Append(Name)
      .Append(" ")
      .Append(Surname);
    return sb.ToString();
}

answered Jul 14 '15 at 12:36

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