respect-validation/docs/validators/Call.md
Alexandre Gomes Gaigalas ec16b3d2df Refactor case sensitiveness support
This is a mid-size refactor that affects several validators.

Most prominently, the ones that had an `$identical` parameter
to deal with case sensitiveness.

This parameter was confusing, effectively making validators such
as `Contains` behave very differently for arrays versus strings.

In arrays, `$identical` meant "the same type", while it in strings
it meant "case sensitive".

That parameter was removed, and the default behavior is now to
always compare **case sensitive** and strict typing.

A document explaining how to combine other validators in order
to achieve case _insensitive_ comparisons was added.

Additionally, the `Call` validator was refactored back to be
suitable to take on the task of being a fast, quick composable
validator.

With the introduction of `Circuit`, we can shift the responsibility
of dealing with possible mismatches to the user. This kind of type
handling is demonstrated in how I refactored `Tld` to account for
the type mismatch without setting error handlers.
2026-01-30 17:11:13 +00:00

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Call

  • Call(callable $callable, Validator $validator)

Validates the return of a [callable][] for a given input.

v::call(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::call(
    '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

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

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

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

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

Categorization

  • Callables
  • Nesting
  • Transformations

Changelog

Version Description
3.0.0 No longer sets error handlers
0.3.9 Created

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