Callback ======== The purpose of the Callback constraint is to create completely custom validation rules and to assign any validation errors to specific fields on your object. If you're using validation with forms, this means that instead of displaying custom errors at the top of the form, you can display them next to the field they apply to. This process works by specifying one or more *callback* methods, each of which will be called during the validation process. Each of those methods can do anything, including creating and assigning validation errors. .. note:: A callback method itself doesn't *fail* or return any value. Instead, as you'll see in the example, a callback method has the ability to directly add validator "violations". ========== =================================================================== Applies to :ref:`class ` or :ref:`property/method ` Options - :ref:`callback ` - `groups`_ - `payload`_ Class :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Validator\\Constraints\\Callback` Validator :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Validator\\Constraints\\CallbackValidator` ========== =================================================================== Configuration ------------- .. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: php-annotations // src/Entity/Author.php namespace App\Entity; use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert; use Symfony\Component\Validator\Context\ExecutionContextInterface; class Author { /** * @Assert\Callback */ public function validate(ExecutionContextInterface $context, $payload) { // ... } } .. code-block:: yaml # config/validator/validation.yaml App\Entity\Author: constraints: - Callback: validate .. code-block:: xml validate .. code-block:: php // src/Entity/Author.php namespace App\Entity; use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert; use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata; class Author { public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata) { $metadata->addConstraint(new Assert\Callback('validate')); } public function validate(ExecutionContextInterface $context, $payload) { // ... } } The Callback Method ------------------- The callback method is passed a special ``ExecutionContextInterface`` object. You can set "violations" directly on this object and determine to which field those errors should be attributed:: // ... use Symfony\Component\Validator\Context\ExecutionContextInterface; class Author { // ... private $firstName; public function validate(ExecutionContextInterface $context, $payload) { // somehow you have an array of "fake names" $fakeNames = [/* ... */]; // check if the name is actually a fake name if (in_array($this->getFirstName(), $fakeNames)) { $context->buildViolation('This name sounds totally fake!') ->atPath('firstName') ->addViolation(); } } } Static Callbacks ---------------- You can also use the constraint with static methods. Since static methods don't have access to the object instance, they receive the object as the first argument:: public static function validate($object, ExecutionContextInterface $context, $payload) { // somehow you have an array of "fake names" $fakeNames = [/* ... */]; // check if the name is actually a fake name if (in_array($object->getFirstName(), $fakeNames)) { $context->buildViolation('This name sounds totally fake!') ->atPath('firstName') ->addViolation() ; } } External Callbacks and Closures ------------------------------- If you want to execute a static callback method that is not located in the class of the validated object, you can configure the constraint to invoke an array callable as supported by PHP's :phpfunction:`call_user_func` function. Suppose your validation function is ``Acme\Validator::validate()``:: namespace Acme; use Symfony\Component\Validator\Context\ExecutionContextInterface; class Validator { public static function validate($object, ExecutionContextInterface $context, $payload) { // ... } } You can then use the following configuration to invoke this validator: .. configuration-block:: .. code-block:: php-annotations // src/Entity/Author.php namespace App\Entity; use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert; /** * @Assert\Callback({"Acme\Validator", "validate"}) */ class Author { } .. code-block:: yaml # config/validator/validation.yaml App\Entity\Author: constraints: - Callback: [Acme\Validator, validate] .. code-block:: xml Acme\Validator validate .. code-block:: php // src/Entity/Author.php namespace App\Entity; use Acme\Validator; use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert; use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata; class Author { public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata) { $metadata->addConstraint(new Assert\Callback([ Validator::class, 'validate', ])); } } .. note:: The Callback constraint does *not* support global callback functions nor is it possible to specify a global function or a service method as callback. To validate using a service, you should :doc:`create a custom validation constraint ` and add that new constraint to your class. When configuring the constraint via PHP, you can also pass a closure to the constructor of the Callback constraint:: // src/Entity/Author.php namespace App\Entity; use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert; use Symfony\Component\Validator\Context\ExecutionContextInterface; use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata; class Author { public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata) { $callback = function ($object, ExecutionContextInterface $context, $payload) { // ... }; $metadata->addConstraint(new Assert\Callback($callback)); } } Options ------- .. _callback-option: ``callback`` ~~~~~~~~~~~~ **type**: ``string``, ``array`` or ``Closure`` [:ref:`default option `] The callback option accepts three different formats for specifying the callback method: * A **string** containing the name of a concrete or static method; * An array callable with the format ``['', '']``; * A closure. Concrete callbacks receive an :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Validator\\Context\\ExecutionContextInterface` instance as only argument. Static or closure callbacks receive the validated object as the first argument and the :class:`Symfony\\Component\\Validator\\Context\\ExecutionContextInterface` instance as the second argument. .. include:: /reference/constraints/_groups-option.rst.inc .. include:: /reference/constraints/_payload-option.rst.inc