Tag: cbvalidation

How often do you want to be sure values in your newly inserted records are unique? I just counted in my current project: 28 times. That’s a lot of repetitive code if you validate this requirement each time, so it makes sense to use some kind of uniqueness validator in cbvalidation. In older releases of cbvalidation there only was a unique validator for ORM which looks like this:

{ 
    fieldName : { validator: "UniqueValidator@cborm" },
    // or
    fieldName : { "UniqueValidator@cborm" : {}  }
}

So pretty easy, you don’t have to specify tablenames, fieldnames or primary keys. That’s only possible if you are using ORM entities, because they have all database information included in the entity definition. So if you want to use request collection validation you are out of luck( in a previous post I explained why this might be a good idea ).