respect-validation/docs/06-custom-rules.md
Henrique Moody 66faefd695
Remove previous validation engine
After many refactorings, no rules use the previous validation engine.
That means we can remove the unused code from the repository and switch
from the previous to the new validation engine everywhere.

This commit will also soft deprecate the methods "validate()", and
"check()" in all the rules and the "assert()" in all rules but the
Validator itself. That means using those methods will still be allowed,
but static analysis tools might complain.

This is a big step toward releasing the next major version, as the code
is pretty much the way it should be when I release the next version.
There's some documentation to be updated, and I would like to change the
behavior of a couple of rules.

Signed-off-by: Henrique Moody <henriquemoody@gmail.com>
2024-03-25 12:28:25 +01:00

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Custom rules

You can also create and use your own rules. To do this, you will need to create a rule and an exception to go with the rule.

To create a rule, you need to create a class that implements the Validatable interface and is within the Rules namespace. It is convenient to just extend the Simple or Standard class. When the rule is called the logic inside the validate method will be executed. Here's how the class should look:

namespace My\Validation\Rules;

use Respect\Validation\Message\Template;
use Respect\Validation\Rules\Core\Simple;

#[Template(
    '{{name}} is something',
    '{{name}} is not something',
)]
final class Something extends Simple
{
    protected function isValid(mixed $input): bool
    {
        // Do something here with the $input and return a boolean value
    }
}

The '{{name}} is not something message would be used then you call the rule with the not().

All classes in Validation are created by the Factory class. If you want Validation to execute your rule (or rules) in the chain, you must overwrite the default Factory.

Factory::setDefaultInstance(
    (new Factory())
        ->withRuleNamespace('My\\Validation\\Rules')
);
v::something(); // Try to load "My\Validation\Rules\Something" if any