Locale

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Validates that a value is a valid locale.

The "value" for each locale is any of the ICU format locale IDs. For example, the two letter ISO 639-1 language code (e.g. fr), or the language code followed by an underscore (_) and the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g. fr_FR for French/France).

Applies to	property or method
Class	Locale
Validator	LocaleValidator

Basic Usage

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

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class User
{
    /**
     * @Assert\Locale(
     *     canonicalize = true
     * )
     */
    protected $locale;
}
    

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        # config/validator/validation.yaml
App\Entity\User:
    properties:
        locale:
            - Locale:
                canonicalize: true
    

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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\User">
        <property name="locale">
            <constraint name="Locale">
                <option name="canonicalize">true</option>
            </constraint>
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>
    

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

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

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

Note

As with most of the other constraints, null and empty strings are considered valid values. This is to allow them to be optional values. If the value is mandatory, a common solution is to combine this constraint with NotBlank.

Options

`canonicalize`

type: boolean default: false

4.1

Using this option with value false was deprecated in Symfony 4.1 and it will throw an exception in Symfony 5.0. Use true instead.

If true, the Locale::canonicalize() method will be applied before checking the validity of the given locale (e.g. FR-fr.utf8 is transformed into fr_FR).

`groups`

type: array | string

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

`message`

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

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

You can use the following parameters in this message:

Parameter	Description
`{{ value }}`	The current (invalid) 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.

This work, including the code samples, is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.

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