What's the best way / best practice to handle boolean in a Laravel 8 Request class?-CodePudding

I have some standard single checkboxes that define a specific boolean value, i.e. is_active

 <label class="form-check-label text-google">
   <input type="checkbox" name="is_active" id="is_active" value="1" class="form-check-input"
      @if (old('is_active') == '1' || (empty(old()) && $doctor->is_active == 1)) checked @endif>
      {{ __('Doctor activated') }}
      <i class="input-helper"></i>
 </label>

When sending it to my Controller the request runs through a custom Request class, where I currently do the following. Mainly important for the updating method, so deselected checkbox will be updated in the database.

  /**
  * Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
  *
  * @return array
  */
  public function rules()
 {
   $this->request->set("is_active", $this->request->has("is_active"));

   return [ ...

I also casted the is_active property in the Model as boolean value. What is best practice here? I couldn't find anything that leads me in the right direction...

Thanks in advance.

CodePudding user response：

Since you want to touch the request before the validation, you could make use of this method: prepareForValidation():

Prepare Input For Validation

If you need to prepare or sanitize any data from the request before you apply your validation rules, you may use the prepareForValidation method:
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

/**
 * Prepare the data for validation.
 *
 * @return void
 */
protected function prepareForValidation()
{
    $this->merge([
        'slug' => Str::slug($this->slug),
    ]);
}

So in your case you can do:

public function prepareForValidation()
{
    $this->merge([
        'is_active' => $this->request->has('is_active')),
    ]);
}

CodePudding user response：

as i read you want to know if there is a value or not, in fact i think you can use the class Request filled function.