I laravel 9 I have installed "bensampo/laravel-enum": "^5.2" and created new enum with command php artisan make:enum SearchDataType
and I wonder if there is a way to describe function with array of SearchDataType elements, like :
public function searchSiteContent(string $s = '', bool $partial= false, SearchDataType array $searchDataTypes= []) : array;
In line above I got syntax error, untill I remove SearchDataType in $searchDataTypes declarations
Thanks!
PHP allocates memory dynamically and what's more, it doesn't care what sort of object you store in your array. From https://stackoverflow.com/a/8759118/7703556
So you can do this check inside your function.
By using array_map or array_walk
See https://stackoverflow.com/a/46035743/7703556
In your case for example with array_map :
function isInstanceOfSearchDataType($variable) {
if(!($variable instanceof SearchDataType)) {
throw new Exception('Variable is not instance of SearchDataType');
}
}
public function searchSiteContent(string $s = '', bool $partial= false, $searchDataTypes= []) : array {
array_map(isInstanceOfSearchDataType, $searchDataTypes); // do this at the beginning
// ... code
return $someArray;
}
You can do the following:
public function searchSiteContent(string $s = '', bool $partial= false, SearchDataType ...$searchDataTypes) : array;
Note the 3 dots before $searchDataType. This will be an array when you use it.
much simpler then having a lot of code just to validate input.
