Laravel validate iOS recorded voice

Question

I have put some mime type validation on my Laravel controller to validate received file from mobile applications:

'file' => 'required_without:body|file|mimes:png,jpg,jpeg,mp3,mp4,pdf,doc,docx,m4a'

This validation rule is OK for most of files, but when iOS app sends recorded voice, this validation rule doesn't work.

Based on what iOS developer says, the file's mime type is audio/m4a but laravel (or maybe PHP) can't detect that.

I checked that $request->file('file')->getClientOriginalExtension() returns audio/m4a but $request->file('file')->guessExtension() function returns null!

Any help is appreciated.

Have you tried this method: https://stackoverflow.com/a/51317180/6449040 — thisiskelvin, Sep 24 '18 at 13:26
I checked that. Not working. In my case guessExtension method returns null and when I remove my validation rule, file is saved with no extension! — Ali Farhoudi, Sep 24 '18 at 13:35

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 25 '18 at 06:47

This is what I did and I believe it is a good practice:

After some tracing that what laravel does to guess mimetypes, I noticed that it is registering some ExtensionGuesser classes like vendor/symfony/http-foundation/File/MimeType/MimeTypeExtensionGuesser.php and there was no audio/m4a mimetype.

I provided AnotherMimeTypeExtensionGuesser containing:

protected $defaultExtensions = array(
    'audio/m4a' => 'm4a',
    'audio/x-m4a' => 'm4a',
    'audio/mp4' => 'm4a',
);

And then I registered it in my AppServiceProvider like this:

ExtensionGuesser::getInstance()->register(new AnotherMimeTypeExtensionGuesser);

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 24 '18 at 13:50

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use this rule in your validation

'file' => 'required_without:body|file|mimetypes:audio/mp4|mimes:m4a'

answered Sep 24 '18 at 13:50

Shailendra Gupta

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I used this rule but not working yet: `mimes:mp3,mp4,mpga,m4a|mimetypes:audio/mp4,audio/m4a,audio/x-m4a` – Ali Farhoudi Sep 24 '18 at 13:56
The weird thing is that guessExtension method returns null! – Ali Farhoudi Sep 24 '18 at 13:57
Have you `dd($request->file('file'));` if not then do and show me the result – Shailendra Gupta Sep 24 '18 at 16:55

Laravel validate iOS recorded voice

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