NAME

Mojolicious::Validator - Validate parameter

SYNOPSIS

  use Mojolicious::Validator;

  my $validator  = Mojolicious::Validator->new;
  my $validation = $validator->validation;
  $validation->input({foo => 'bar'});
  $validation->required('foo')->like(qr/ar$/);
  say $validation->param('foo');

DESCRIPTION

Mojolicious::Validator validates parameters for Mojolicious.

CHECKS

These validation checks are available by default.

equal_to

  $validation->equal_to('foo');

Value needs to be equal to the value of another field.

in

  $validation->in(qw(foo bar baz));

Value needs to match one of the values in the list.

like

  $validation->like(qr/^[A-Z]/);

Value needs to match the regular expression.

size

  $validation->size(2, 5);

Value length in characters needs to be between these two values.

ATTRIBUTES

Mojolicious::Validator implements the following attributes.

checks

  my $checks = $validator->checks;
  $validator = $validator->checks({size => sub {...}});

Registered validation checks, by default only "equal_to", "in", "like" and "size" are already defined.

METHODS

Mojolicious::Validator inherits all methods from Mojo::Base and implements the following new ones.

add_check

  $validator = $validator->add_check(size => sub {...});

validation

  my $validation = $validator->validation;

Build Mojolicious::Validator::Validation object to perform validations.

  my $validation = $validator->validation;
  $validation->input({foo => 'bar'});
  $validation->required('foo')->size(1, 5);
  say $validation->param('foo');