How to add validation without making field required?

[emadd]

It seems it's not possible to set a validation rule on a field without making it required. i.e. - Phone number should not be required but if something is entered, validate it

[RajatJain4061]

Absolutely right, If the field is empty then it tries to validate the value. There should be a condition to check if the field does not contains RequiredRule then do not validate field with blank values.

[michzio]

Yes this seems to be issue I have empty fields without RequiredRule throwing errors so I think now there is only possibility to check by type of errors?

[josueruiz7]

Hello @RajatJain4061
are you working on this fix?

[felipe-azevedo]

@RajatJain4061, I also need this fixed. Can you fix it?

[RajatJain4061]

@josueruiz7 @felipe-azevedo I will fix this ASAP within next 2 days

[felipe-azevedo]

@RajatJain4061 any news on this?

[felipe-azevedo]

@RajatJain4061 hey, man. Sorry to bother again, but I really need this.

[josueruiz7]

@RajatJain4061 any news? thanks.

[phuongnguyen2359]

You can fix that by checking value is empty (return true) in the validate func in RegexRule

[felipe-azevedo]

@phuongnguyen2359 I expected the framework to do this. I have too many fields and I don't want to check each one for a value before validating.
@RajatJain4061 what happened to the fix? I need this, man. Thanks.

[felipe-azevedo]

@phuongnguyen2359 Also, this affects every Rule, not just Regex.
For example if I have minLength and maxLength validations and the field is not required, empty would be an acceptable value, but it's not because it will violate the minLength.

[RajatJain4061]

Hopefully I’ll fix this on this Sunday. Sorry for getting delayed.

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[felipe-azevedo]

Thanks, @RajatJain4061
If you want a suggestion, I'd add a property to the Validator's init to allow empty for non-required fields. If that's set to true, when you validate a field that's not required and it's empty, all validations should return true, i.e. all rules should be ignored.