MinLength/MaxLength description is too specific

[MizardX]

Type of issue

Typo

Description

The description says that the MinLengthAttribute and MaxLengthAttribute attributes works on "length of array or string data", while the description of the LengthAttribute attribute says it works on "length of collection/string data".

Looking at the source, all three attributes uses CountPropertyHelper.TryGetCount(), so the descriptions should be similar.

Please change the description of MinLengthAttribute and MaxLengthAttribute to match the wording of LengthAttribute, such that it mentions "collection" instead of "array".

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.componentmodel.dataannotations.minlengthattribute?view=net-9.0

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs/blob/main/xml/System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations/MinLengthAttribute.xml

Document Version Independent Id

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Article author

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[KalleOlaviNiemitalo]

The .NET Framework implementation of MinLengthAttribute and MaxLengthAttribute still does not recognise ICollection. The documentation therefore should not be changed to unconditionally say that it works.

For .NET Core, the feature was added in dotnet/corefx#2650.