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Henrique Moody b701fac656
 Create ShortCircuit validator and ShortCircuitable interface 
This commit introduces a mechanism for validators to return early once
the validation outcome is determined, rather than evaluating all child
validators.

The ShortCircuit validator evaluates validators sequentially and stops
at the first failure, similar to how PHP's && operator works. This is
useful when later validators depend on earlier ones passing, or when
you want only the first error message.

The ShortCircuitCapable interface allows composite validators (AllOf,
AnyOf, OneOf, NoneOf, Each, All) to implement their own short-circuit
logic.

Why "ShortCircuit" instead of "FailFast":

The name "FailFast" was initially considered but proved misleading.
While AllOf stops on failure (fail fast), AnyOf stops on success
(succeed fast), and OneOf stops on the second success. The common
behavior is not about failing quickly, but about returning as soon as
the outcome is determined—which is exactly what short-circuit
evaluation means. This terminology is familiar to developers from
boolean operators (&& and ||), making the behavior immediately
understandable.

Co-authored-by: Alexandre Gomes Gaigalas <alganet@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Claude Code (Opus 4.5)
2026-02-05 17:32:42 +01:00

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After

  • After(callable $callable, Validator $validator)

Validates the input after applying a [callable][] to it.

v::after(str_split(...), v::arrayType()->lengthEquals(5))->assert('world');
// Validation passes successfully

Consider the following variable:

$url = 'http://www.google.com/search?q=respect.github.com';

To validate every part of this URL we could use the native parse_url function to break its parts:

$parts = parse_url($url);

This function returns an array containing scheme, host, path and query. We can validate them this way:

v::arrayVal()
    ->key('scheme', v::startsWith('http'))
    ->key('host', v::domain())
    ->key('path', v::stringType())
    ->key('query', v::notBlank());

Using v::call() you can do this in a single chain:

v::after(
    'parse_url',
     v::arrayVal()
        ->key('scheme', v::startsWith('http'))
        ->key('host',   v::domain())
        ->key('path',   v::stringType())
        ->key('query',  v::notBlank())
)->assert($url);
// Validation passes successfully

After does not handle possible errors (type mismatches). If you need to ensure that your callback is of a certain type, use ShortCircuit or handle it using a closure:

v::after('strtolower', v::equals('ABC'))->assert(123);
// 𝙭 strtolower(): Argument #1 ($string) must be of type string, int given

v::shortCircuit(v::stringType(), v::after('strtolower', v::equals('abc')))->assert(123);
// → 123 must be a string

v::shortCircuit(v::stringType(), v::after('strtolower', v::equals('abc')))->assert('ABC');
// Validation passes successfully

Categorization

  • Callables
  • Nesting
  • Transformations

Changelog

Version Description
3.0.0 No longer sets error handlers and got renamed to After
2.0.0 Sets error handlers
0.3.9 Created as Call

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