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Locale

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Locale

Validates that a value is a valid locale.

The “value” for each locale is either the two letter ISO 639-1 language code (e.g. fr), or the language code followed by an underscore (_), then the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g. fr_FR for French/France).

Applies to property or method
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Class Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Locale
Validator Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\LocaleValidator

Basic Usage

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    # src/Acme/UserBundle/Resources/config/validation.yml
Acme\UserBundle\Entity\User:
    properties:
        locale:
            - Locale: ~
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    // src/Acme/UserBundle/Entity/User.php
namespace Acme\UserBundle\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class User
{
    /**
     * @Assert\Locale()
     */
     protected $locale;
}
  • XML
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    <!-- src/Acme/UserBundle/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="Acme\UserBundle\Entity\User">
        <property name="locale">
            <constraint name="Locale" />
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>
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    // src/Acme/UserBundle/Entity/User.php
namespace Acme\UserBundle\Entity;

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

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

Options

message

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

This message is shown if the string is not a valid locale.

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