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ConstraintViolationInterface

A violation of a constraint that happened during validation.

For each constraint that fails during validation one or more violations are created. The violations store the violation message, the path to the failing element in the validation graph and the root element that was originally passed to the validator. For example, take the following graph:

(Person)---(firstName: string)
     \
  (address: Address)---(street: string)

If the Person object is validated and validation fails for the "firstName" property, the generated violation has the Person instance as root and the property path "firstName". If validation fails for the "street" property of the related Address instance, the root element is still the person, but the property path is "address.street".

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Bernhard Schussek bschussek@gmail.com

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Methods

getCode()  : string|null
Returns a machine-digestible error code for the violation.
getInvalidValue()  : mixed
Returns the value that caused the violation.
getMessage()  : string|Stringable
Returns the violation message.
getMessageTemplate()  : string
Returns the raw violation message.
getParameters()  : array<string|int, mixed>
Returns the parameters to be inserted into the raw violation message.
getPlural()  : int|null
Returns a number for pluralizing the violation message.
getPropertyPath()  : string
Returns the property path from the root element to the violation.
getRoot()  : mixed
Returns the root element of the validation.

Methods

getCode()

Returns a machine-digestible error code for the violation.

public getCode() : string|null
Return values
string|null

getInvalidValue()

Returns the value that caused the violation.

public getInvalidValue() : mixed
Return values
mixed

the invalid value that caused the validated constraint to fail

getMessageTemplate()

Returns the raw violation message.

public getMessageTemplate() : string

The raw violation message contains placeholders for the parameters returned by . Typically you'll pass the message template and parameters to a translation engine.

Return values
string

getParameters()

Returns the parameters to be inserted into the raw violation message.

public getParameters() : array<string|int, mixed>
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getMessageTemplate()
Return values
array<string|int, mixed>

a possibly empty list of parameters indexed by the names that appear in the message template

getPlural()

Returns a number for pluralizing the violation message.

public getPlural() : int|null

For example, the message template could have different translation based on a parameter "choices":

  • Please select exactly one entry. (choices=1)
  • Please select two entries. (choices=2)

This method returns the value of the parameter for choosing the right pluralization form (in this case "choices").

Return values
int|null

getPropertyPath()

Returns the property path from the root element to the violation.

public getPropertyPath() : string
Return values
string

The property path indicates how the validator reached the invalid value from the root element. If the root element is a Person instance with a property "address" that contains an Address instance with an invalid property "street", the generated property path is "address.street". Property access is denoted by dots, while array access is denoted by square brackets, for example "addresses[1].street".

getRoot()

Returns the root element of the validation.

public getRoot() : mixed
Return values
mixed

The value that was passed originally to the validator when the validation was started. Because the validator traverses the object graph, the value at which the violation occurs is not necessarily the value that was originally validated.


        
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