Level 5
Did you check your form and if there is enabled enctype="multipart/form-data" or file=> true in Html Form package ?
Jul 17, 2016
5
Level 2
Form request image validation differences between 5.1 and 5.2
I'm in the process of upgrading an app from Laravel 5.1 to 5.2. The application is an API and one of the endpoints accepts an image upload named 'avatar'. In Laravel 5.1, the following validation rule works:
public function rules()
{
return [
'avatar' => 'required|image'
];
}
However, in 5.2, I get the error 'Avatar must be an image'. When dumping $request->avatar, I can see that it is an instance of Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile as expected.
Any ideas?
Level 2
Yes, I did verify both of those things. The same issue happens when using mimetypes. Here is what the failing UploadedFile looks like:
Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile {#779
-test: false
-originalName: "cn.png"
-mimeType: "image/png"
-size: 10
-error: 0
path: "/var/www/conversations-api/storage/app"
filename: "temp_avatar.png"
basename: "temp_avatar.png"
pathname: "/var/www/conversations-api/storage/app/temp_avatar.png"
extension: "png"
realPath: "/var/www/conversations-api/storage/app/temp_avatar.png"
aTime: 2016-07-17 20:05:24
mTime: 2016-07-17 20:05:38
cTime: 2016-07-17 20:05:38
inode: 1532
size: 17245
perms: 0100774
owner: 33
group: 33
type: "file"
writable: true
readable: true
executable: true
file: true
dir: false
link: false
}
Level 34
@stevenmusumeche You should use the rule mime type for file validation.
For example, to image files you would do something like:
public function rules()
{
return [
'avatar' => 'required|mimes:jpg,png'
];
}
Level 2
For anyone else that has this problem, the issue was not in the validator at all. There is a bug in Laravel 5.2 from converting Symfony UploadedFile objects with the "test" attribute as true to Laravel's similar UploadedFile object. In my tests, I was uploading Symfony UploadedFile file objects with "test" = true. By changing these to Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile it works.
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