How to put conditional Required Attribute into class property to work with WEB API?

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You can implement your own ValidationAttribute. Perhaps something like this:

public class RequireWhenCategoryAttribute : ValidationAttribute
{
    protected override ValidationResult IsValid(object value, ValidationContext validationContext)
    {
        var employee = (EmployeeModel) validationContext.ObjectInstance;
        if (employee.CategoryId == 1)
            return ValidationResult.Success;

        var emailStr = value as string;
        return string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(emailStr)
            ? new ValidationResult("Value is required.")
            : ValidationResult.Success;
    }
}

public sealed class EmployeeModel
{
    [Required]
    public int CategoryId { get; set; }
    [RequireWhenCategory]
    public string Email { get; set; } // If CategoryId == 1 then it is required
}

This is just a sample. It may have casting issues, and I’m not sure this is the best approach to solve this problem.

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