The problem
I have a Form
and a FieldSet
. I would like to validate that the FieldSet
is not empty. Also, I want to validate each field in the FieldSet
.
So far, whatever I have tried is validating one or the other, but not both. If elements
is present in the Form's input filter specification, then it validates that elements
is not empty, but does not validate the bar
and baz
fields of FieldSet
. And, of course, the other way around. Any clue as to how to approach this issue would be much appreciated.
The Form
class FooForm extends Form implements InputFilterProviderInterface
{
public function init()
{
$this->add([
'name' => 'elements',
'type' => Collection::class,
'required' => true,
'options' => [
'target_element' => [
'type' => SomeElementFieldSet::class
]
]
]);
}
public function getInputFilterSpecification()
{
return [
[
'name' => 'elements',
'required' => true,
'validators' => [
['name' => 'NotEmpty']
]
]
];
}
}
The FieldSet
class SomeElementFieldSet extends Fieldset implements InputFilterProviderInterface
{
public function init()
{
$this->add(['name' => 'bar']);
$this->add(['name' => 'baz']);
}
public function getInputFilterSpecification()
{
return [
[
'name' => 'bar',
'required' => true,
'validators' => [
['name' => 'NotEmpty']
]
],
[
'name' => 'baz',
'required' => true,
'validators' => [
['name' => 'NotEmpty']
]
]
];
}
}
Edit: Added full validation spec.
After getting some hints on Google and digging through the source code, I found a solution. Unfortunately the zend-inputfilter
implementation is a little buggy and won't work nicely with getInputFilterSpecification()
, but we can just construct our own InputFilter
and return that directly:
The Form
class FooForm extends BaseForm
{
public function init()
{
$this->add([
'name' => 'elements',
'type' => Collection::class,
'options' => [
'target_element' => [
'type' => SomeElementFieldSet::class
]
]
]);
}
public function getInputFilter()
{
if (!$this->filter) {
$this->filter = new InputFilter();
/** @var Collection $elementsCollection */
$elementsCollection = $this->fieldsets['elements'];
/** @var SomeElementFieldSet $elementsFieldSet */
$elementsFieldSet = $elementsCollection->getTargetElement();
$collectionFilter = new CollectionInputFilter();
$collectionFilter->setIsRequired(true);
$collectionFilter->setInputFilter(
$elementsFieldSet->getInputFilterSpecification()
);
$this->filter->add($collectionFilter, 'elements');
}
return $this->filter;
}
}
This will validate that there is at least one element in the collection. And will validate all the elements one by one by the FieldSet's specification.
One problem persists, though. Whenever the collection is empty, the validation will return false
, but will not return any messages. This is due to a bug in the zend-inputfilter
component. Issues reported here and here. But that is another problem altogether.