C# Webapi HelpPage Request Model Customization

Question

I have created my WebAPI controllers' documentation using HelpPage. I have following model in my web api.

public class InfoModel
{
    [Required]
    public int id { get; set; }

    [Required]
    public string title { get; set; }

    public string status { get; set; }

    public string created_at { get; set; }
}

HelpPage renders InfoModel on help page like this:

{
   "id": 1,
   "title": "Sample string 2",
   "status": "Sample string 3",
   "created_at": "Sample string 4"
}

Using [Required] attribute from Model Validation and I want to highlight properties having [Required] attribute. How can I customize HelpPage MVC plugin to bold "id" and "title", so that user may know that these attributes are REQUIRED:

{

"id": 1,

"title": "Sample string 2",

"status": "Sample string 3",

"created_at": "Sample string 4"

}

I understand Jquery/CSS but for that HelpPage MVC should render HTML contents with some marking for [Required] attributes so that JS/CSS may style them differently on client side. I am expecting some modifications in Areas.HelpPage.ObjectGenerator class that is responsible for generating HTML for InfoModel.

Answer 1

if you are using latest version of Web API, then you get helpful information regarding data annotation attributes like Required etc.

Example:

Answer 2

Use jQuery to apply css to the id and title:

$('foo').css("font-weight","Bold");