On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 05:48:22PM +0300, Anton Serdyuk wrote:
> Hi, Thomas!
>
> You understood this section of manual completely wrong. This is not
> about adding validation to getters. This is about _using getters_ like
> validation rules.
"Constraints can also be applied to the return value of a method."
Which does sound like "This constraint will be evaluated when you do a
getPassword()". But you imply that I am wrong doing that assumtion.
So, basically this is "custom validators" implemented as functions and run
together with other validations?
> For example adding constraint (true ===
> $user->isPasswordLegal()) to validation with custom error message (The
> password cannot match your first name)
>
> So isPasswordLegal() function really returns boolean true (return
> ($this->firstName != $this->password)). And we ensure this function
> returns true here:
>
> # src/Acme/BlogBundle/Resources/config/validation.yml
> Acme\BlogBundle\Entity\Author:
> getters:
> passwordLegal:
> - "True": { message: "The password cannot match your first name" }
Good explanation and short version is that "True" here (LHS) means what we
want and and the RHS (other side of the ":" ) is the "Or not" part.
Thomas.
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Thomas Lundquist
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Dear fellow developers.
> >
> >
> > First, I am happy that we can do validation outside forms pretty easily
> > and that's a very good thing.
> >
> > But I have a hard time understanding this one:
> >
> > http://symfony.com/doc/master/book/validation.html#getters
> >
> > This is about adding validation to the getters.
> >
> > My question is simple: Could someone please explain to me why the validation
> > is on the getter and not the setter?
> >
> > When it's set it's already too late to handle the exception properly.
> >
> > I would rather like to know that something is wrong with my data/value when
> > I *set* the value, not when I am about to use it.
> >
> >
> > And secondly; I would expect a true from a function with the name
> > "isPasswordLegal" means the password *is* legal and not ending up with a
> > validation error message.
> >
> > So, am I just missing some logic here? I'd like to be educated.
> >
> >
> > Thomas.
> >
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