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NotNull
- Basic Usage
- Options
  - message
  - payload

NotNull¶

Validates that a value is not strictly equal to null. To ensure that a value is simply not blank (not a blank string), see the NotBlank constraint.

Applies to	property or method
Options	message payload
Class	`Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\NotNull`
Validator	`Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\NotNullValidator`

Basic Usage¶

If you wanted to ensure that the firstName property of an Author class were not strictly equal to null, you would:

Annotations

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

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Author
{
    /**
     * @Assert\NotNull()
     */
    protected $firstName;
}

YAML

# src/AppBundle/Resources/config/validation.yml
AppBundle\Entity\Author:
    properties:
        firstName:
            - NotNull: ~

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\Author">
        <property name="firstName">
            <constraint name="NotNull" />
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>

PHP

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

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

class Author
{
    public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata)
    {
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('firstName', new Assert\NotNull());
    }
}

Options¶

message¶

type: string default: This value should not be null.

This is the message that will be shown if the value is null.

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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