Assert\Expression gives Variable Not Valid around position 2 - forms

I have a form. I am trying to assert that if one field is not null, then another field must also not be null. Trying to do this with Symfony annotations as I don't want the code in the controller and was told this would be a good way to do it.
I have tried using an Assert\Expression, however I keep getting various errors on the field that I am checking. It's slightly concerning that it says Variable when I need it to be referring to a field.
// The field that I want to check if it is null
'activeTestData',
null,
[
'label' => 'form.label.active_test_data',
'required' => false,
]
)
->add(
// The field that can't be null if the activeTestData field is not null
'activeTestDataUnit',
ChoiceType::class,
[
'label' => 'form.label.active_test_data_unit',
'required' => false,
'choices' => [
'form.label.active_test_please_select' => '',
'Byte(s)' => 'b',
'Kilobyte(s)' => 'k',
'Megabyte(s)' => 'm',
'Gigabyte(s)' => 'g',
],
// Where I am having the issue
'constraints' => [
new Assert\Expression([
'expression' => "!activeTestData == null",
'message' => 'Please enter a unit for active test data'
]),
],
I want a FORM error for when there is nothing in activeTestDataUnit but there is something in activeTestData. Unfortunately I get a symfony error:
Variable "activeTestData" is not valid around position 2 for expression !activeTestData == null.

Correct syntax for this situation would be the following:
"!this.getParent().get('activeTestData')->getData() == null"
You can see more examples and details on symfony documentation.
I updated my answer. In this context "this" is a Form object of a "activeTestDataUnit" field. So to check for a "activeTestData" value you have go to to the parent and then get a correct child.
As of Symfony 4.1 you can pass your custom values to the "values" argument and avoid all of this clutter, by passing $builder->getData(). See here for the more information on symfony documentation

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'title' => t('Node Views Mydata'),
'field' => array(
'title' => t('Node views mydata'),
'help' => t('Shows some data in views'),
'id' => 'node_views_mydata',
'sort' => [
'node_views_mydata' => 'default',
],
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I have also defined a field plugin processing text data for this field, and can insert and output the field in views.
Now I would like to make the field sortable. But I can't do that. I always get the error "unknown column". In fact, node_views_data is not a "real" node field, but only created on the fly via the hook.
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Object provided to Escape helper, but flags do not allow recursion on hidden field

Okay this is a weird one to me...Usually i get this error when there's a problem with the date/time format, but it's throwing up on a hidden field, even though it's set to view formhidden...Has this happened to anyone before?
That's the view:
echo $this->formHidden($steppedEdge->get('glassSections'));
This is the form fieldset:
$this->add([
'name' => 'glassSections',
'type' => \Zend\Form\Element\Hidden::class,
'attributes' => [
'id' => 'glassSections',
],
]);
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It's because it was an entity in that field...

symfony2: selected value of choices fields

I get something strange with Symfony2 forms. I create a form with a propel entity, values are fine except the "select" (choices) field, that have no selected value.
I tried few tricks like:
$params['choices'] = array('N/A'=> 'N/A');
$params['data'] = array('N/A');
$params['preferred_choices'] = array('N/A');
Even with this, there is no preselected value. What's wrong ?
You can use data attribute for default selected item.
$param['data'] = 'N/A'
This is part of the Abstract "field" type ?
Fore example form,
$form = $this->createFormBuilder()
->add('category', 'choice', array(
'choices' => array(
0 => 'Books',
1 => 'Electronics',
2 => 'Hardware`
),
'data' => 1
))
->getForm();
In this example when the form loads the option Electronics should be selected as default
'empty_value' => 'Select Choice',
$builder->add('gender', 'choice', array(
'choices' => array('m' => 'Male', 'f' => 'Female')
'empty_value' => 'Select Choice',
));
I finally solved my problem. There were 2 things:
* reloading with Firefox, the previously selected value seems to be kept, so I coulnd't really test the changes until I closed the current tab and reopened one;
* I passed a single dimension array as values for the "choice" field, so Symfony2 re-indexed it with integer and my entity string value couldn't be hydrated to the symfony2 integer value of the field.

Remove null values coming from empty collection form item

I'm trying to implement a ManyToMany relation in a form between 2 entities (say, Product and Category to make simpe) and use the method described in the docs with prototype and javascript (http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/form/form_collections.html).
Here is the line from ProductType that create the category collection :
$builder->add('categories', 'collection', array(
'type' => 'entity',
'options' => array(
'class' => 'AppBundle:Category',
'property'=>'name',
'empty_value' => 'Select a category',
'required' => false),
'allow_add' => true,
'allow_delete' => true,
));
When I had a new item, a new select appear set to the empty value 'Select a category'. The problem is that if I don't change the empty value, it is sent to the server and after a $form->bind() my Product object get some null values in the $category ArrayCollection.
I first though to test the value in the setter in Product entity, and add 'by_reference'=>false in the ProductType, but in this case I get an exception stating that null is not an instance of Category.
How can I make sure the empty values are ignored ?
Citing the documentation on 'delete_empty':
If you want to explicitly remove entirely empty collection entries from your form you have to set this option to true
$builder->add('categories', 'collection', array(
'type' => 'entity',
'options' => array(
'class' => 'AppBundle:Category',
'property'=>'name',
'empty_value' => 'Select a category'),
'allow_add' => true,
'allow_delete' => true,
'delete_empty' => true
));
Since you use embedded forms, you could run in some issues such as Warning: spl_object_hash() expects parameter 1 to be object, null given when passing empty collections.
Removing required=>false as explained on this answer did not work for me.
A similar issue is referenced here on github and resolved by the PR 9773
I finally found a way to handle that with Event listeners.
This discussion give the meaning of all FormEvents.
In this case, PRE_BIND (replaced by PRE_SUBMIT in 2.1 and later) will allow us to modify the data before it is bind to the Entity.
Looking at the implementation of Form in Symfony source is the only source of information I found on how to use those Events. For PRE_BIND, we see that the form data will be updated by the event data, so we can alter it with $event->setData(...). The following snippet will loop through the data, unset all null values and set it back.
$builder->addEventListener(FormEvents::PRE_BIND, function(FormEvent $event){
$data = $event->getData();
if(isset($data["categories"])) {
foreach($data as $key=>$value) {
if(!isset($value) || $value == "")
unset($data[$key]);
}
$event->setData($data);
});
Hope this can help others !
Since Symfony 3.4 you can pass a closure to delete_empty:
$builder
->add('authors', CollectionType::class, [
'delete_empty' => function ($author) {
return empty($author['firstName']);
},
]);
https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/c0d99d13c023f9a5c87338581c2a4a674b78f85f

Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists against 2 fields

I usualy use Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists to update or insert a record. This works fine with one field to check against. How to do it if you have two fields to check?
$validator = new Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists(
array(
'table' => $this->_name,
'field' => 'id_sector,day_of_week'
)
);
if ($validator->isValid($fields_values['id_sector'],$fields_values['day_of_week'])){
//true
}
I tried it with an array and comma separated list, nothing works... Any help is welcome.
Regards
Andrea
To do this you would have to extend the Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists class.
It doesn't currently know how to check for the existence of more than one field.
You could just use two different validator instances to check the two fields separately. This is the only work around that I can see right now besides extending it.
If you choose to extend it then you'll have to find some way of passing in all the fields to the constructor ( array seems like a good choice ), and then you'll have to dig into the method that creates the sql query. In this method you'll have to loop over the array of fields that were passed in to the constructor.
You should look into using the exclude parameter. Something like this should do what you want:
$validator = new Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists(
array(
'table' => $this->_name,
'field' => 'id_sector',
'exclude' => array(
'field' => 'day_of_week',
'value' => $fields_values['day_of_week']
)
);
The exclude field will effectively add to the automatically generated WHERE part to create something equivalent to this:
WHERE `id_sector` = $fields_values['id_sector'] AND `day_of_week` = $fields_values['day_of_week']
Its kind of a hack in that we're using it for the opposite of what it was intended, but its working for me similar to this (I'm using it with Db_NoRecordExists).
Source: Zend_Validate_Db_NoRecordExists example
Sorry for the late reply.
The best option that worked for me is this:
// create an instance of the Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists class
// pass in the database table name and the first field (as usual)...
$validator = new Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists(array(
'table' => 'tablename',
'field' => 'first_field'
));
// reset the where clause used by Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists
$validator->getSelect()->reset('where');
// set again the first field and the second field.
// :value is a named parameter that will be substituted
// by the value passed to the isValid method
$validator->getSelect()->where('first_field = ?', $first_field);
$validator->getSelect()->where('second_field = :value', $second_field);
// add your new record exist based on 2 fields validator to your element.
$element = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('element');
$element->addValidator($validator);
// add the validated element to the form.
$form->addElement($element);
I hope that will help someone :)
Although, I would strongly recommend a neater solution which would be to extend the Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists class with the above code.
Enjoy!!
Rosario
$dbAdapter = Zend_Db_Table::getDefaultAdapter();
'validators' => array('EmailAddress', $obj= new Zend_Validate_Db_NoRecordExists(array('adapter'=>$dbAdapter,
'field'=>'email',
'table'=>'user',
'exclude'=>array('field'=>'email','value'=>$this->_options['email'], 'field'=>'is_deleted', 'value'=>'1')
))),
For those using Zend 2, If you want to check if user with given id and email exists in table users, It is possible this way.
First, you create the select object that will be use as parameter for the Zend\Validator\Db\RecordExists object
$select = new Zend\Db\Sql\Select();
$select->from('users')
->where->equalTo('id', $user_id)
->where->equalTo('email', $email);
Now, create RecordExists object and check the existence this way
$validator = new Zend\Validator\Db\RecordExists($select);
$validator->setAdapter($dbAdapter);
if ($validator->isValid($username)) {
echo 'This user is valid';
} else {
//get and display errors
$messages = $validator->getMessages();
foreach ($messages as $message) {
echo "$message\n";
}
}
This sample is from ZF2 official doc
You can use the 'exclude' in this parameter pass the second clause that you want to filter through.
$clause = 'table.field2 = value';
$validator = new Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists(
array(
'table' => 'table',
'field' => 'field1',
'exclude' => $clause
)
);
if ($validator->isValid('value') {
true;
}
I am using zend framework v.3 and validation via InputFilter(), it uses same validation rules as zend framework 2.
In my case I need to check, if location exists in db (by 'id' field) and has needed company's id ('company_id' field).
I implemented it in next way:
$clause = new Operator('company_id', Operator::OP_EQ, $companyId);
$inputFilter->add([
'name' => 'location_id',
'required' => false,
'filters' => [
['name' => 'StringTrim'],
['name' => 'ToInt'],
],
'validators' => [
[
'name' => 'Int',
],
[
'name' => 'dbRecordExists',
'options' => [
'adapter' => $dbAdapterCore,
'table' => 'locations',
'field' => 'id',
'exclude' => $clause,
'messages' => [
'noRecordFound' => "Location does not exist.",
],
]
],
],
]);
In this case validation will pass, only if 'locations' table has item with columns id == $value and company_id == $companyId, like next:
select * from location where id = ? AND company_id = ?