[5.5] Return request data from controller validate() call

[JosephSilber]

So that instead of this:

public function store()
{
    $this->validate(request(), [
        'title' => 'required',
        'body' => 'required',
    ]);

    $data = request()->only('title', 'body');

    Post::create($data);
}

You can now do this:

public function store()
{
    $data = $this->validate(request(), [
        'title' => 'required',
        'body' => 'required',
    ]);

    Post::create($data);
}

[taylorotwell]

How does this behave with deeply nested "dot" notation validation rules?

[JosephSilber]

@taylorotwell do you mean regular dot notation, like this?

$this->validate(request(), [
    'title' => 'required',
    'author.name' => 'required',
    'author.description' => 'required',
]);

This will end up calling only with the keys:

$request->only('title', 'author.name', 'author.description');

Since only returns nested values, this will return the following:

[
    'title' => 'The title',
    'author' => [
        'name' => 'The author\'s name',
        'description' => 'A description of the author',
    ],
]

[morloderex]

@JosephSilber Addition to @taylorotwell question. What would happen if one these keys should be an uploaded file instance?

[JosephSilber]

@morloderex then you'd get the file as part of the returned array, same as calling $request->only().

[laurencei]

Why did this line need to change? I'm trying to understand the difference before/after?

edit: looks like your just switching to the helper, which has the same functionality under the hood? Is that right?

[JosephSilber]

@laurencei correct.

[laurencei]

Does this have any effect when using FormRequest?

Could/should the FormRequest also only pass validated variables into the controller after validation? Could be an option to only allow validated data through?

[taylorotwell]

Seems like if we wanted a validated method could be added to FormRequest that does the same thing.

[taylorotwell]

Seems fine to me.