Enterprise Library validate all rulesets

I have a question validating objects using Microsoft Enterprise Library.

I have some validators for different fields. But I need the different fields in the object to be in different rulesets (like in this example):

public class Category
{
[NotNullValidator(MessageTemplate="The category name cannot be null", Ruleset="NameRuleset")]
[StringLengthValidator(1, 200, MessageTemplate = "The category name must be between {3} and {5} characters", Ruleset = "NameRuleset")]
public string Name { get; set; }

[NotNullValidator(MessageTemplate = "The category description cannot be null", Ruleset = "DescriptionRuleset")]
[StringLengthValidator(1, 2000, MessageTemplate = "The category description must be between {3} and {5} characters", Ruleset = "DescriptionRuleset")]
public string Description { get; set; }
}

The question is how do I validate the object so that all the rulesets are taken into consideration?

One solution would be this, but I don't want to pass the rulesets as parameters all the time.

v开发者_如何学Pythonar result = Validation.Validate<Category>(category, new string[] { "NameRuleset", "DescriptionRuleset" });

And this will only validate the default ruleset (for my example, the object will always be valid, even if its name is longer than 200 characters)

var result = Validation.Validate<Category>(category);

So is there any way to validate all the rulesets without manually specifying them for each call of Validation.Validate()?

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You can have multiple rulesets on your properties. Thus, it is posible to introduce a CombinedRuleset which you use for both Name and Description properties on top of your existing rulesets. This, however, requires duplicating all your validation rules, which is a code smell.

If you would like a ruleset joining feature to be added to EntLib in a future release, suggest it here