New in Symfony 5.4: Nested Validation Attributes
November 5, 2021
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Published by
Javier Eguiluz
Symfony 5.4 is backed by:
Contributed by
Alexandre Daubois
in #41994.
In Symfony 5.2 we added a feature to define validation constraints as PHP attributes.
Attributes were very recent at that time, because they had just been added to
PHP 8.0. The only caveat was that you couldn't nest PHP attributes, so you
couldn't use them with constraints such as AtLeastOneOf
and Collection
.
Thankfully, PHP 8.1, released on November 25, 2021, adds support for nested attributes. That's why in Symfony 5.4 you'll be able to use PHP attributes to define all existing constraints, without any exemption.
The trick that enables this feature is to use the new
keyword to create the
nested attribute:
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#[Attribute1(new SubAttribute1())]
#[Attribute2([new SubAttribute2(), new SubAttribute3()])]
#[Attribute3(someProperty: new SubAttribute4())]
class SomeClass
{
// ...
}
This is how it looks in practice when using Symfony Validator constraints in a complex example:
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use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
class SomeClass
{
#[Assert\All([
new Assert\NotNull(),
new Assert\Range(min: 3),
])]
#[Assert\Collection(
fields: [
'foo' => [
new Assert\NotNull(),
new Assert\Range(min: 3),
],
'bar' => new Assert\Range(min: 5),
'baz' => new Assert\Required([new Assert\Email()]),
'qux' => new Assert\Optional([new Assert\NotBlank()]),
],
allowExtraFields: true
)]
private $property1;
#[Assert\AtLeastOneOf(
constraints: [
new Assert\NotNull(),
new Assert\Range(min: 3),
],
message: 'foo',
includeInternalMessages: false,
)]
#[Assert\Sequentially([
new Assert\NotBlank(),
new Assert\Range(min: 5),
])]
private $property2;
// ...
}
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