DataAnnotations: Recursively validating an entire object graph

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Here’s an alternative to the opt-in attribute approach. I believe this will traverse the object-graph properly and validate everything.

public bool TryValidateObjectRecursive<T>(T obj, List<ValidationResult> results) {

bool result = TryValidateObject(obj, results);

var properties = obj.GetType().GetProperties().Where(prop => prop.CanRead 
    && !prop.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(SkipRecursiveValidation), false).Any() 
    && prop.GetIndexParameters().Length == 0).ToList();

foreach (var property in properties)
{
    if (property.PropertyType == typeof(string) || property.PropertyType.IsValueType) continue;

    var value = obj.GetPropertyValue(property.Name);

    if (value == null) continue;

    var asEnumerable = value as IEnumerable;
    if (asEnumerable != null)
    {
        foreach (var enumObj in asEnumerable)
        {
            var nestedResults = new List<ValidationResult>();
            if (!TryValidateObjectRecursive(enumObj, nestedResults))
            {
                result = false;
                foreach (var validationResult in nestedResults)
                {
                    PropertyInfo property1 = property;
                    results.Add(new ValidationResult(validationResult.ErrorMessage, validationResult.MemberNames.Select(x => property1.Name + '.' + x)));
                }
            };
        }
    }
    else
    {
        var nestedResults = new List<ValidationResult>();
        if (!TryValidateObjectRecursive(value, nestedResults))
        {
            result = false;
            foreach (var validationResult in nestedResults)
            {
                PropertyInfo property1 = property;
                results.Add(new ValidationResult(validationResult.ErrorMessage, validationResult.MemberNames.Select(x => property1.Name + '.' + x)));
            }
        }
    }
}

return result;
}

Most up-to-date code:
https://github.com/reustmd/DataAnnotationsValidatorRecursive

Package:
https://www.nuget.org/packages/DataAnnotationsValidator/

Also, I have updated this solution to handle cyclical object graphs. Thanks for the feedback.

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