IsTrue

IsTrue

Validates that a value is true. Specifically, this checks if the value is exactly true, exactly the integer 1, or exactly the string '1'.

Also see IsFalse.

Basic Usage

This constraint can be applied to properties (e.g. a termsAccepted property on a registration model) and methods. It’s most powerful in the latter case, where you can assert that a method returns a true value. For example, suppose you have the following method:

// src/Entity/Author.php
namespace App\Entity;
class Author
{
    protected $token;
    public function isTokenValid()
    {
        return $this->token == $this->generateToken();
    }
}

Then you can validate this method with IsTrue as follows:

• Annotations

  // src/Entity/Author.php
  namespace App\Entity;
  use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;
  class Author
  {
      protected $token;
      /**
       * @Assert\IsTrue(message="The token is invalid.")
       */
      public function isTokenValid()
      {
          return $this->token == $this->generateToken();
      }
  }

• YAML

  # config/validator/validation.yaml
  App\Entity\Author:
      getters:
          tokenValid:
              - 'IsTrue':
                  message: The token is invalid.

• 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\Author">
          <getter property="tokenValid">
              <constraint name="IsTrue">
                  <option name="message">The token is invalid.</option>
              </constraint>
          </getter>
      </class>
  </constraint-mapping>

• PHP

  // src/Entity/Author.php
  namespace App\Entity;
  use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\IsTrue;
  use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata;
  class Author
  {
      public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata)
      {
          $metadata->addGetterConstraint('tokenValid', new IsTrue([
              'message' => 'The token is invalid.',
          ]));
      }
      public function isTokenValid()
      {
          return $this->token == $this->generateToken();
      }
  }

If the isTokenValid() returns false, the validation will fail.

Note

As with most of the other constraints, null is considered a valid value. This is to allow the use of optional values. If the value is mandatory, a common solution is to combine this constraint with NotNull.

Options

groups

type: array | string

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

message

type: string default: This value should be true.

This message is shown if the underlying data is not true.

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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