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Last Updated: 2024-11-23
Validation for presence is ambiguous when working with key/value structures.
I had the following Laravel validation in a controller:
<? php
$request->validate([
'plan_name' => 'required',
]);
The validation was passing - even though plan_name was undefined. This was
because the plan_name KEY was present in the request, but its VALUE had been set
to undefined.
What I realy wanted was to ensure additionally that plan_name, the key itself, was
present too (i.e. not null).