namespace System.Web.ModelBinding { using System; using System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis; using System.Linq; // This is a single provider that can work with both byte[] and Binary models. public sealed class BinaryDataModelBinderProvider : ModelBinderProvider { private static readonly ModelBinderProvider[] _providers = new ModelBinderProvider[] { new SimpleModelBinderProvider(typeof(byte[]), new ByteArrayExtensibleModelBinder()), #if UNDEF new SimpleModelBinderProvider(typeof(Binary), new LinqBinaryExtensibleModelBinder()) #endif }; public override IModelBinder GetBinder(ModelBindingExecutionContext modelBindingExecutionContext, ModelBindingContext bindingContext) { return (from provider in _providers let binder = provider.GetBinder(modelBindingExecutionContext, bindingContext) where binder != null select binder).FirstOrDefault(); } // This is essentially a clone of the ByteArrayModelBinder from core private class ByteArrayExtensibleModelBinder : IModelBinder { [SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Design", "CA1031:DoNotCatchGeneralExceptionTypes", Justification = "We want to ignore when the data is corrupted")] [SuppressMessage("Microsoft.Globalization", "CA1304:SpecifyCultureInfo", MessageId = "System.Web.ModelBinding.ValueProviderResult.ConvertTo(System.Type)", Justification = @"The default CultureInfo used by ValueProvider is fine.")] public bool BindModel(ModelBindingExecutionContext modelBindingExecutionContext, ModelBindingContext bindingContext) { ModelBinderUtil.ValidateBindingContext(bindingContext); ValueProviderResult vpResult = bindingContext.UnvalidatedValueProvider.GetValue(bindingContext.ModelName); // case 1: there was no element containing this data if (vpResult == null) { return false; } string base64string = (string)vpResult.ConvertTo(typeof(string)); // case 2: there was an element but it was left blank if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(base64string)) { return false; } // Future proofing. If the byte array is actually an instance of System.Data.Linq.Binary // then we need to remove these quotes put in place by the ToString() method. string realValue = base64string.Replace("\"", String.Empty); try { bindingContext.Model = ConvertByteArray(Convert.FromBase64String(realValue)); return true; } catch { // corrupt data - just ignore return false; } } protected virtual object ConvertByteArray(byte[] originalModel) { return originalModel; } } #if UNDEF // This is essentially a clone of the LinqBinaryModelBinder from core private class LinqBinaryExtensibleModelBinder : ByteArrayExtensibleModelBinder { protected override object ConvertByteArray(byte[] originalModel) { return new Binary(originalModel); } } #endif } }