Changed validationError to protected property from private to be mo…

…re flexible

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,17 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+
+## [unreleased]
+
+### Added
+
+- Added `invalidate` to `ValidateTrait`
+
+### Changed
+
+- Changed `validationError` to protected property from private to be more flexible
+
 ## [1.3.0] - 2020-07-31
 
 ### Added

src/ValidateTrait.php

@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ trait ValidateTrait
     /**
      * @var array
      */
-    private $validationErrors = [];
-
+    protected $validationErrors = [];
 
     /**
      * If validation fails you can use this to work with errors
@@ -64,6 +63,21 @@ public function validate(string $field, $name, array $options = []): void
         $this->validator()->add($field, $name, $options);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Invalidates a field
+     *
+     * @param string $field
+     * @param string $error
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function invalidate(string $field, string $error) : void
+    {
+        if (! isset($this->validationErrors[$field])) {
+            $this->validationErrors[$field] = [];
+        }
+        $this->validationErrors[$field][] = $error;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Validates this object
      *

tests/ValidateTraitTest.php

@@ -40,5 +40,8 @@ public function testValidate()
 
         $this->assertEmpty($popo->errors());
         $this->assertEmpty($popo->errors('name'));
+
+        $popo->invalidate('foo', 'bar');
+        $this->assertEquals(['bar'], $popo->errors('foo'));
     }
 }