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Country

Validates that a value is a valid ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.

Applies to property or method
Options
Class Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Country
Validator Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\CountryValidator

Basic Usage

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

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class User
{
    /**
     * @Assert\Country()
     */
     protected $country;
}
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    # src/AppBundle/Resources/config/validation.yml
AppBundle\Entity\User:
    properties:
        country:
            - Country: ~
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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\User">
        <property name="country">
            <constraint name="Country" />
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>
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    // 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 loadValidationMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata)
    {
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('country', new Assert\Country());
    }
}

Options

message

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

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

payload

type: mixed default: null

This option can be used to attach arbitrary domain-specific data to a constraint. The configured payload is not used by the Validator component, but its processing is completely up to you.

For example, you may want to use several error levels to present failed constraints differently in the front-end depending on the severity of the error.

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