On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:00 PM, euromark <dereurom...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> just wrote something myself - although its not tested yet, either:
>
> /**
> * @param array $data
> * @param array $options
> * - scope (array of other fields as scope - isUnique dependent on
> other fields of the table)
> * - batch (defaults to true, remembers previous values in order to
> validate batch imports)
> * example in model: 'rule' => array ('validateUniqueExt',
> array('scope'=>array('belongs_to_table_id', 'user_id'))),
> * //TODO: test!!!
> * 2011-03-27 ms
> */
> function validateUniqueExt($data, $options = array()) {
> foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
> $fieldName = $key;
> $fieldValue = $value;
> }
> $defaults = array('batch'=>true, 'scope'=>array());
> $options = array_merge($defaults, $options);
>
> # for batch
> if ($options['batch'] !== false &&
> !empty($this->batchRecords)) {
> if (array_key_exists($value,
> $this->batchRecords[$fieldName])) {
> return $options['scope'] ===
> $this->batchRecords[$fieldName]
> [$value];
> }
> }
>
> # continue with validation
> if (!$this->validateUnique($data, $options['scope'])) {
> return false;
> }
>
> # for batch
> if ($options['batch'] !== false) {
> if (!isset($this->batchRecords)) {
> $this->batchRecords = array();
> }
> $this->batchRecords[$fieldName][$value] = $scope;
> }
> return true;
> }
>
> this way it doesnt matter if its called from saveAll() or multiple
> validates()
I was confused about $this->batchRecords, thinking you'd need to copy
$this->data to $this->batchRecords. But I see that the validation
method takes care of that. Nifty.
But your foreach loop seems a bit awkward.
list($fieldName, $fieldValue) = $data;
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