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Positive

Validates that a value is a positive number. Zero is neither positive nor negative, so you must use PositiveOrZero if you want to allow zero as value.

Applies to property or method
Class Positive
Validator GreaterThanValidator

Basic Usage

The following constraint ensures that the income of an Employee is a positive number (greater than zero):

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

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Employee
{
    #[Assert\Positive]
    protected $income;
}
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# config/validator/validation.yaml
App\Entity\Employee:
    properties:
        income:
            - Positive: ~
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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\Employee">
        <property name="income">
            <constraint name="Positive"></constraint>
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>
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// src/Entity/Employee.php
namespace App\Entity;

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


class Employee
{
    public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata)
    {
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('income', new Assert\Positive());
    }
}

Available Options

groups

type: array | string default: null

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

message

type: string default: This value should be positive.

The default message supplied when the value is not greater than zero.

You can use the following parameters in this message:

Parameter Description
{{ compared_value }} Always zero
{{ compared_value_type }} The expected value type
{{ 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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