Inside the "data/" directory, we have files with lists of subdivisions
that need to be updated. We have to update them manually, or we automate
that task with a script and GitHub actions.
The two options are very time consuming and also not ideal. We don't
want to deal with that problem and, thinking that the user of this
library may want to show the data that we validate, we should create a
whole library to make it more usable.
The "sokil/php-isocodes" is a simple library that, even supports
translations. It's frequently updated and has gone to major performance
updates.
I am not fond of the idea of requiring an external library to install
Validation, as I have seen that gone wrong before [1]. Ideally, that
would be an optional dependency for people who would like to use those
rules, but to make that happen, we need to release a MAJOR version.
[1]: d072b4de6a
Signed-off-by: Henrique Moody <henriquemoody@gmail.com>
There is no much benefit from having individual rules for each country's
subdivision, quite the opposite. It increases the amount of code and
makes it hard to change the implementation of these rules. Right now,
the only sane way to change those rules is with a customized script.
This commit will remove the Subdivision Code rules per country and
instead will put that information into JSON files.
We both wouldn't like to keep this in this library anymore, and we are
considering having another library to deal with this data [1], but since
it seems like it may take some time, looks better to do it temporarily
here.
[1]: https://github.com/sokil/php-isocodes/issues/12
Co-authored-by: Mazen Touati <mazen_touati@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Henrique Moody <henriquemoody@gmail.com>
