Cascade

The Cascade constraint is used to validate a whole class, including all the objects that might be stored in its properties. Thanks to this constraint, you don't need to add the Valid constraint on every child object that you want to validate in your class.

Applies to	class
Class	Cascade

Basic Usage

In the following example, the Cascade constraint will tell the validator to validate all properties of the class, including constraints that are set in the child classes BookMetadata and Author:

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        // src/Model/BookCollection.php
namespace App\Model;

use App\Model\Author;
use App\Model\BookMetadata;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

#[Assert\Cascade]
class BookCollection
{
    #[Assert\NotBlank]
    protected string $name = '';

    public BookMetadata $metadata;

    public Author $author;

    // ...
}
    

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        # config/validator/validation.yaml
App\Entity\BookCollection:
    constraints:
        - Cascade: ~
    

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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\BookCollection">
        <constraint name="Cascade"/>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>
    

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

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

class BookCollection
{
    // ...

    public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata): void
    {
        $metadata->addConstraint(new Assert\Cascade());
    }
}
    

Options

The groups option is not available for this constraint.

`exclude`

type: array | string default: null

This option can be used to exclude one or more properties from the cascade validation.

6.3

The exclude option was introduced in Symfony 6.3.

`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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