Number 1: Like I mentioned in my comment under the question, what you're trying to achieve may be done in simpler way.
Number 2: Since you do not want to change your already written code where you got ->messages() then you could do the following. I will list the steps and provide an example code.
- We need to override Laravel's validator, (Validation) Factory, and ValidationService provider classes.
- In
App\Services folder you can create two classes Validator and ValidationFactory
- in
App\Providers create a class ValidationServiceProvider
- Go into
config/app.php file and under providers replace Illuminate\Validation\ValidationServiceProvider::class with App\Providers\ValidationServiceProvider::class
Validator class looks like so:
namespace App\Services;
use Illuminate\Support\MessageBag;
use Illuminate\Validation\ValidationRuleParser;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Translation\Translator;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\File\UploadedFile;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Validation\Rule as RuleContract;
class Validator extends \Illuminate\Validation\Validator
{
/**
* @var MessageBag $all_messages
*/
protected $all_messages;
public function __construct(Translator $translator, array $data, array $rules, array $messages = [], array $customAttributes = [])
{
parent::__construct($translator, $data, $rules, $messages, $customAttributes);
$this->all_messages = new MessageBag;
$this->getAllFormattedMessages();
}
public function makeAllRulesMessages($attribute, $rule, $parameters)
{
$this->all_messages->add($attribute, $this->makeReplacements(
$this->getMessage($attribute, $rule), $attribute, $rule, $parameters
));
}
public function messages(bool $validated_rules_messages = false)
{
return $validated_rules_messages
? $this->validatedMessages()
: $this->all_messages;
}
/**
* This is here in case the true validated messages are needed
*
* @return MessageBag
*/
public function validatedMessages()
{
return parent::messages();
}
public function getAllFormattedMessages()
{
// We'll spin through each rule and add all messages to it.
foreach ($this->rules as $attribute => $rules) {
$attribute = str_replace('\.', '->', $attribute);
foreach ($rules as $rule) {
// First we will get the correct keys for the given attribute in case the field is nested in
// an array. Then we determine if the given rule accepts other field names as parameters.
// If so, we will replace any asterisks found in the parameters with the correct keys.
[$rule, $parameters] = ValidationRuleParser::parse($rule);
if (($keys = $this->getExplicitKeys($attribute)) &&
$this->dependsOnOtherFields($rule)) {
$parameters = $this->replaceAsterisksInParameters($parameters, $keys);
}
$value = $this->getValue($attribute);
if ($value instanceof UploadedFile && $this->hasRule($attribute, array_merge($this->fileRules, $this->implicitRules))
) {
$this->makeAllRulesMessages($attribute, 'uploaded', []);
} elseif ($rule instanceof RuleContract) {
$this->makeCustomRuleMessage($attribute, $rule);
} else {
$this->makeAllRulesMessages($attribute, $rule, $parameters);
}
}
}
}
/**
* @param $attribute
* @param \Illuminate\Contracts\Validation\Rule $rule $rule
*/
public function makeCustomRuleMessage($attribute, $rule)
{
$this->failedRules[$attribute][get_class($rule)] = [];
$messages = (array)$rule->message();
foreach ($messages as $message) {
$this->all_messages->add($attribute, $this->makeReplacements(
$message, $attribute, get_class($rule), []
));
}
}
}
This class does one thing in summary, get all the messages of the passed rules into $all_messages property of the class. It extends and allows the base validation class run, and simply overrides messages() method to make all the collected rules available for use.
ValidationFactory overrides Illuminate\Validation\Factory and it looks like so:
namespace App\Services;
use Illuminate\Validation\Factory;
class ValidationFactory extends Factory
{
/**
* Resolve a new Validator instance.
*
* @param array $data
* @param array $rules
* @param array $messages
* @param array $customAttributes
* @return \Illuminate\Validation\Validator
*/
protected function resolve(array $data, array $rules, array $messages, array $customAttributes)
{
if (is_null($this->resolver)) {
return new \App\Services\Validator($this->translator, $data, $rules, $messages, $customAttributes);
}
return call_user_func($this->resolver, $this->translator, $data, $rules, $messages, $customAttributes);
}
}
This class does only one thing, overrides resolve() method in this class by making use of the instance of our custom \App\Services\Validator class instead.
ValidationServiceProvider extends Illuminate\Validation\ValidationServiceProvider and overrides registerValidationFactory() method and it looks like so:
namespace App\Providers;
use App\Services\ValidationFactory;
use Illuminate\Validation\ValidationServiceProvider as BaseValidationServiceProvider;
class ValidationServiceProvider extends BaseValidationServiceProvider
{
protected function registerValidationFactory()
{
$this->app->singleton('validator', function ($app) {
$validator = new ValidationFactory($app['translator'], $app);
// The validation presence verifier is responsible for determining the existence of
// values in a given data collection which is typically a relational database or
// other persistent data stores. It is used to check for "uniqueness" as well.
if (isset($app['db'], $app['validation.presence'])) {
$validator->setPresenceVerifier($app['validation.presence']);
}
return $validator;
});
}
}
What the above class does is also to instruct the provide to make use of our App\Services\ValidationFactory whenever the app requires one.
And we are done. All validation messages will be shown even if one of our validation rules failed.
Caveats
In order to achieve this, we needed to make a lot of changes and overriding. Except really critical this may signal that something about the app's design looks wrong.
Laravel validation implementation may change in future release and therefore may become a problem maintaining these changes.
I cannot tell if there are other side effects that might happen for overriding Laravel's default validation implementation or if all the rules return the right messages.
Normally you only want to return failed validation messages to user rather than all the possible failures.
