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@sprain sprain commented Mar 26, 2014

Q A
Bug fix? yes
New feature? no
BC breaks? no
Deprecations? yes
Tests pass? yes
Fixed tickets #10386, #10387
License MIT

Todos:

  • Discuss and determine deprecation versions
  • Update docs

After following some discussion in the tickets mentioned above I have improved the ISBN validator, which has had some inconsistencies:

  • Use a type which can be set to isbn10 or isbn13 or null (checks if value matches any type) instead of the current boolean isbn10 and isbn13 options which cause confusion (e.q. if both are true, does this mean the value must match any or both? You could think it's the latter, but that's actually impossible.).
  • In the IBAN validator we recently agreed to be strict about upper- and lowercase handling ([IBAN validator] Fixed and improved handling of lowercase values #10489). Therefore this should be also the case with the ISBN validator. Some ISBN10 numbers may end with an uppercase X (representing the check-digit 10), while a lowercase x is considered wrong (see here and here). I did not have access to the actual specifications as I have only found documentation which costs about $100 (e.q. here).

To avoid bc breaks I suggest to introduce deprecations for current constraint options. In the documentation I haven't found any information about which versions may introduce deprecations, so you might have to help me out here with hints on how to handle it correctly. I'll be happy to provide the code with the deprecated parts removed after that.


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must be removed

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fabpot commented Mar 27, 2014

This changes can only be done in the master branch.

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fabpot commented Mar 27, 2014

Deprecations can happen in any versions (here it would be 2.5).

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sprain commented Mar 27, 2014

Ok, I expected this. I will close this and create a new one on master branch.

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sprain commented Mar 27, 2014

Deprecations: How will be taken care of removing the deprecated code?

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[Validator] Improved ISBN validator

| Q             | A
| ------------- | ---
| Bug fix?      | yes
| New feature?  | no
| BC breaks?    | no
| Deprecations? | yes
| Tests pass?   | yes
| Fixed tickets | #10386, #10387, #10542
| License       | MIT
| Doc PR        | symfony/symfony-docs/pull/3724

This is a new PR of #10542, now on master branch.

Todos:
- [x] Discuss and determine deprecation versions
- [x] Update docs

After following some discussion in the tickets mentioned above I have improved the ISBN validator, which has had some inconsistencies:

* Use a `type` which can be set to `isbn10` or `isbn13` or `null` (checks if value matches any type) instead of the current boolean `isbn10` and `isbn13` options which cause confusion (e.q. if both are true, does this mean the value must match any or both? You could think it's the latter, but that's actually impossible.).
* In the IBAN validator we recently agreed to be strict about upper- and lowercase handling (#10489). Therefore this should be also the case with the ISBN validator. Some ISBN10 numbers may end with an uppercase `X` (representing the check-digit 10), while a lowercase `x` is considered wrong (see [here](http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1253500-a-question-about-isbn-10-s---ending-in-x) and [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_ISBN_errors)). I did not have access to the actual specifications as I have only found documentation which costs about $100 (e.q. [here](http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=36563)).

To avoid bc breaks I suggest to introduce deprecations for current constraint options. [In the documentation](http://symfony.com/doc/current/contributing/code/conventions.html#deprecations) I haven't found any information about which versions may introduce deprecations, so you might have to help me out here with hints on how to handle it correctly. I'll be happy to provide the code with the deprecated parts removed after that.

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ec42844 Improved ISBN validator
@@ -41,11 +42,43 @@ public function validate($value, Constraint $constraint)
$value = str_replace('-', '', $value);
}

$validation = 0;
$value = strtoupper($value);
if (null == $constraint->type) {
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should be a strict comparison

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