Count

Count

Validates that a given collection’s (i.e. an array or an object that implements Countable) element count is between some minimum and maximum value.

Basic Usage

To verify that the emails array field contains between 1 and 5 elements you might add the following:

• Annotations

  // src/Entity/Participant.php
  namespace App\Entity;
  use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
  class Participant
  {
      /**
       * @Assert\Count(
       *      min = 1,
       *      max = 5,
       *      minMessage = "You must specify at least one email",
       *      maxMessage = "You cannot specify more than {{ limit }} emails"
       * )
       */
      protected $emails = [];
  }

• YAML

  # config/validator/validation.yaml
  App\Entity\Participant:
      properties:
          emails:
              - Count:
                  min: 1
                  max: 5
                  minMessage: 'You must specify at least one email'
                  maxMessage: 'You cannot specify more than {{ limit }} emails'

• XML

  <!-- config/validator/validation.xml -->
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
  <constraint-mapping xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping https://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping/constraint-mapping-1.0.xsd">
      <class name="App\Entity\Participant">
          <property name="emails">
              <constraint name="Count">
                  <option name="min">1</option>
                  <option name="max">5</option>
                  <option name="minMessage">You must specify at least one email</option>
                  <option name="maxMessage">You cannot specify more than {{ limit }} emails</option>
              </constraint>
          </property>
      </class>
  </constraint-mapping>

• PHP

  // src/Entity/Participant.php
  namespace App\Entity;
  use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
  use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata;
  class Participant
  {
      public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata)
      {
          $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('emails', new Assert\Count([
              'min' => 1,
              'max' => 5,
              'minMessage' => 'You must specify at least one email',
              'maxMessage' => 'You cannot specify more than {{ limit }} emails',
          ]));
      }
  }

Options

exactMessage

type: string default: This collection should contain exactly {{ limit }} elements.

The message that will be shown if min and max values are equal and the underlying collection elements count is not exactly this value.

You can use the following parameters in this message:

groups

type: array | string

It defines the validation group or groups this constraint belongs to. Read more about validation groups.

max

type: integer

This option is the “max” count value. Validation will fail if the given collection elements count is greater than this max value.

This option is required when the min option is not defined.

maxMessage

type: string default: This collection should contain {{ limit }} elements or less.

The message that will be shown if the underlying collection elements count is more than the max option.

You can use the following parameters in this message:

min

type: integer

This option is the “min” count value. Validation will fail if the given collection elements count is less than this min value.

This option is required when the max option is not defined.

minMessage

type: string default: This collection should contain {{ limit }} elements or more.

The message that will be shown if the underlying collection elements count is less than the min option.

You can use the following parameters in this message:

payload

type: mixed default: null

This option can be used to attach arbitrary domain-specific data to a constraint. The configured payload is not used by the Validator component, but its processing is completely up to you.

For example, you may want to use several error levels to present failed constraints differently in the front-end depending on the severity of the error.

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