---
title: NoteEditValidator
summary: API reference for NoteEditValidator (SAIF.Services.Agencies.Notes.Validators).
status: draft
owner: SAIF Doc Gen
last_reviewed: 2026-09-24
library: SAIF.Services
reference_type: package
---

# NoteEditValidator

A FluentValidation `AbstractValidator<NoteEdit>` used by `SAIF.Services.Agencies.Notes.NoteService` and `MoreReadableNoteService` (via `IValidationService`) to validate agency-note edits before they are persisted. It has no injected dependencies.

## Purpose
- Requires a category code on every agency-note edit.
- Requires a type code on every agency-note edit.

## Context
- Namespace: `SAIF.Services.Agencies.Notes.Validators`
- Assembly/package: `SAIF.Services` (packaged inside the `SAIF.SAIFCode.Core` NuGet package)

## Public members
| Member | Signature | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| NoteEditValidator() | `public NoteEditValidator()` | Registers `RuleFor(n => n.CategoryCode).NotNull()` ("Error: Category is required.") and `RuleFor(n => n.TypeCode).NotNull()` ("Error: Type is required."). |

## Behavioral notes
- Text-length/required-text rules are commented out in source, so note text content is not validated by this validator*; text validation for agency notes is instead performed separately in `NoteService.ValidateNoteText`*.

> **Note:** Statements marked with * were inferred from code structure, naming conventions, or
> contextual evidence where direct confirmation was not available in source artifacts. Statements
> marked with ** could not be confirmed; treat as unknown until verified.

## Sources
- Services/SAIF.Services/Agencies/Notes/Validators/NoteEditValidator.cs