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Language
- Basic Usage
- Options
  - message

Language¶

Validates that a value is a valid language Unicode language identifier (e.g. fr or zh-Hant).

Applies to	property or method
Options	message
Class	`Language`
Validator	`LanguageValidator`

Basic Usage¶

Annotations

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

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class User
{
    /**
     * @Assert\Language()
     */
     protected $preferredLanguage;
}

YAML

# src/AppBundle/Resources/config/validation.yml
AppBundle\Entity\User:
    properties:
        preferredLanguage:
            - Language: ~

XML

<!-- 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\User">
        <property name="preferredLanguage">
            <constraint name="Language" />
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>

PHP

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

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

class User
{
    public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata)
    {
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('preferredLanguage', new Assert\Language());
    }
}

Options¶

message¶

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

This message is shown if the string is not a valid language code.

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