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Currency

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Currency

New in version 2.3: The Currency constraint was introduced in Symfony 2.3.

Validates that a value is a valid 3-letter ISO 4217 currency name.

Applies to property or method
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Class Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Currency
Validator Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\CurrencyValidator

Basic Usage

If you want to ensure that the currency property of an Order is a valid currency, you could do the following:

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    // src/AppBundle/Entity/Order.php
namespace AppBundle\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Order
{
    /**
     * @Assert\Currency
     */
    protected $currency;
}
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    # src/AppBundle/Resources/config/validation.yml
AppBundle\Entity\Order:
    properties:
        currency:
            - Currency: ~
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    <!-- src/AppBundle/Resources/config/validation.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<constraint-mapping xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping/constraint-mapping-1.0.xsd">

    <class name="AppBundle\Entity\Order">
        <property name="currency">
            <constraint name="Currency" />
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>
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    // src/AppBundle/Entity/Order.php
namespace AppBundle\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Order
{
    public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata)
    {
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('currency', new Assert\Currency());
    }
}

Options

message

type: string default: This value is not a valid currency.

This is the message that will be shown if the value is not a valid currency.

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