laatzen/Common/LaaProduction/Extensions.cs

namespace LaaProduction
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
    using System.Security.Cryptography;
    using System.Text;

    internal static class Extensions
    {
        internal static string ComputeBase64Hash(this string value)
        {
            if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value))
            {
                var bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(value);
                var hash = SHA256.Create().ComputeHash(bytes);
                var base64 = Convert.ToBase64String(hash);

                return base64;
            }

            return value;
        }

        internal static bool TryValidate(this object model, out string errors)
        {
            errors = default(string);

            var validationResults = new List<ValidationResult>();
            var validationContext = new ValidationContext(model);

            if (!Validator.TryValidateObject(model, validationContext, validationResults, true))
            {
                var errorBuilder = new StringBuilder();

                foreach (var error in validationResults)
                {
                    var errorMessage = error.ErrorMessage;

                    if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(errorMessage))
                    {
                        continue;
                    }

                    var property = "Error";

                    foreach (var member in error.MemberNames)
                    {
                        property = member;

                        break;
                    }
                    
                    errorBuilder.AppendLine($"[{property}] -> {errorMessage}");
                }

                errors = errorBuilder.ToString();

                return false;
            }

            return true;
        }
    }
}