Laravel Console Command Validation

Apr 11, 2016 by Eric L. Barnes

Command Validator is a package that lets you validate Laravel Console Commands. Here is an example of its usage: use Illuminate\Console\Command; use Cerbero\Com…

✅ Command Validator

Laravel package to validate the input of console commands.

📦 Install

Via Composer:

composer require cerbero/command-validator

🔮 Usage

To validate the input of our console commands, we can use the ValidatesInput trait and define the validation rules for our arguments and options in the rules() method:

use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use Cerbero\CommandValidator\ValidatesInput;

class SampleCommand extends Command
{
    use ValidatesInput;

    protected function rules(): array
    {
        return [
            'some_argument' => 'integer|digits:4|min:2000',
            'some_option' => 'string|max:2',
        ];
    }
}

The available rules are the same validation rules provided by Laravel. If we need custom validation, here is how we can define custom rules in Laravel.

Sometimes we may need to show custom messages or attributes for some validation errors. We can achieve that by overriding the methods messages() and attributes():

protected function messages(): array
{
    return [
        'min' => 'The minimum allowed :attribute is :min',
    ];
}

protected function attributes(): array
{
    return [
        'year' => 'year of birth',
    ];
}

📆 Change log

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

🧪 Testing

composer test

💞 Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING and CODE_OF_CONDUCT for details.

🧯 Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email andrea.marco.sartori@gmail.com instead of using the issue tracker.

🏅 Credits

⚖️ License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.