symfony/src/Symfony/Component/Validator/README.md

Validator Component
===================

This component is based on the JSR-303 Bean Validation specification and
enables specifying validation rules for classes using XML, YAML or
annotations, which can then be checked against instances of these classes.

    use Symfony\Component\Validator\Validator;
    use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadataFactory;
    use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\Loader\StaticMethodLoader;
    use Symfony\Component\Validator\ConstraintValidatorFactory;

    $validator = new Validator(
        new ClassMetadataFactory(new StaticMethodLoader()),
        new ConstraintValidatorFactory()
    );

    $constraint = new Assert\Collection(array(
        'name' => new Assert\Collection(array(
            'first_name' => new Assert\MinLength(101),
            'last_name'  => new Assert\MinLength(1),
        )),
        'email' => new Assert\Email(),
        'simple' => new Assert\MinLength(102),
        'gender' => new Assert\Choice(array(3, 4)),
        'file' => new Assert\File(),
        'password' => new Assert\MinLength(60),
    ));

    $violations = $validator->validateValue($input, $constraint);

Resources
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Silex integration:

https://github.com/fabpot/Silex/blob/master/src/Silex/Provider/ValidatorServiceProvider.php

Unit tests:

https://github.com/symfony/symfony/tree/master/tests/Symfony/Tests/Component/Validator

Documentation:

http://symfony.com/doc/2.0/book/validation.html

JSR-303 Specification:

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=303