Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\Loader\FileLoader

abstract class FileLoader extends AbstractLoader

Base loader for loading validation metadata from a file.

Constants

DEFAULT_NAMESPACE

The namespace to load constraints from by default.

protected	$namespaces		from AbstractLoader
protected	$file

addNamespaceAlias(string $alias, string $namespace)

Adds a namespace alias.

Constraint

newConstraint(string $name, mixed $options = null)

Creates a new constraint instance for the given constraint name.

__construct(string $file)

Creates a new loader.

Adds a namespace alias.

The namespace alias can be used to reference constraints from specific namespaces in {@link newConstraint()}:

$this->addNamespaceAlias('mynamespace', '\\Acme\\Package\\Constraints\\');

$constraint = $this->newConstraint('mynamespace:NotNull');

string	$alias	The alias
string	$namespace	The PHP namespace

Creates a new constraint instance for the given constraint name.

string	$name	The constraint name. Either a constraint relative to the default constraint namespace, or a fully qualified class name. Alternatively, the constraint may be preceded by a namespace alias and a colon. The namespace alias must have been defined using {@link addNamespaceAlias()}.
mixed	$options	The constraint options

If the namespace prefix is undefined

Creates a new loader.

string

$file

The mapping file to load

If the file does not exist or is not readable