Lost with Rules and ValidationRule

[demobiel]

Hi,

I am a little bit lost with how to use custom validation rules.

This is my class:

class VoteData extends Data
{
    public function __construct(

         #[Required]
         public App\Models\Meeting $meeting,

        #[Rule(new ValidateVotes())]
        public array $votes,
    ) {}
}

in order to be able to validate the vote, I need data from the meeting. How can I pass the "meeting" input to the new ValidateVotes() rule?

Kind regards

Andries

ps: this is the 3rd time I write a question about the framework, the previous 2 times I found the solution by just typing the question here, so I didn't have to submit. Despite the fact that this is a very good rubber duck, it didn't help this time...

pps: I also don't full understand the different between using a ValidationRule to validate, or using the Rule( new CustomRule ) way...

[demobiel]

I was able to get it to work by not working with Attributes, but with the rules function. Is it possible to achieve the same via #[Rule(new ValidateVotes())] ?

 public static function rules(ValidationContext $context){
        return [
            'votes' => [
                new ValidateVote($context->payload['meeting'])
            ]
        ];
    }

[rubenvanassche]

I don't think there's another option at the moment to achieve this. So the rules method is the way to go!

[demobiel]

Thanks Ruben for your reply! I will go for this now. But one way or another other validation rules like "before" etc are able to fetch these other attributes, but I can't get my head around on how that actually works...

but for now, it is all good!