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Unique

Validates that all the elements of the given collection are unique (none of them is present more than once). Elements are compared strictly, so '7' and 7 are considered different elements (a string and an integer, respectively).

If you want to apply different validation constraints to the elements of a collection or want to make sure that certain collection keys are present, use the Collection constraint.
If you want to validate that the value of an entity property is unique among all entities of the same type (e.g. the registration email of all users) use the UniqueEntity constraint.
Applies to property or method
Options
Class Unique
Validator UniqueValidator

Basic Usage

This constraint can be applied to any property of type array or \Traversable. In the following example, $contactEmails is an array of strings:

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    // src/Entity/Person.php
namespace App\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Person
{
    /**
     * @Assert\Unique
     */
    protected $contactEmails;
}
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    # config/validator/validation.yaml
App\Entity\Person:
    properties:
        contactEmails:
            - Unique: ~
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    <!-- config/validator/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 https://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping/constraint-mapping-1.0.xsd">

    <class name="App\Entity\Person">
        <property name="contactEmails">
            <constraint name="Unique"/>
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>
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    // src/Entity/Person.php
namespace App\Entity;

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

class Person
{
    public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata)
    {
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('contactEmails', new Assert\Unique());
    }
}

Options

groups

type: array | string

It defines the validation group or groups this constraint belongs to. Read more about validation groups.

message

type: string default: This collection should contain only unique elements.

This is the message that will be shown if at least one element is repeated in the collection.

You can use the following parameters in this message:

Parameter Description
{{ value }} The repeated value

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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