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Relative Date Helpers in Laravel 11.42

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The Laravel team released v11.42, which includes relative date helpers, fluent numeric validation, JSON assertions on streamed content, and more.

Relative Date Shorthands

Jason McCreary contributed relative date shorthand methods to the query builder that you can use to constrain date fields for things like finding records in the past, future, today, after today, and more:

DB::table('invoices')
    ->wherePast('due_at')
    ->get();

DB::table('invoices')
    ->whereFuture('due_at')
    ->get();

DB::table('invoices')
    ->whereNowOrPast('due_at')
    ->get();

DB::table('invoices')
    ->whereNowOrFuture('due_at')
    ->get();

DB::table('invoices')
    ->whereToday('due_at')
    ->get();

DB::table('invoices')
    ->whereBeforeToday('due_at')
    ->get();

DB::table('invoices')
    ->whereAfterToday('due_at')
    ->get();

Besides the above methods shown, they also include or and not variants and the ability to pass an array of column names:

All of these methods have their where, or, and orWhereNot counterparts. All methods also accept an array of column names as the first argument. The wherePast and whereFuture have an optional second argument to set $now.

See Pull Request #54408 for implementation details and test examples.

Fluent Numeric Validation

Carlos Junior contributed a fluent numeric validation class, providing an expressive way to define numeric validation rules:

// Before
$rules = [
    'score' => 'numeric|integer|multiple_of:10|lte:some_field|max:100',
];

// After
$rules = [
    'score' => [
        Rule::numeric()
            ->integer()
            ->multipleOf(10)
            ->lessThanOrEqual('some_field')
            ->max(100);
    ],
];

Context "missing" Method

Vincent Bergeron contributed a missing() and missingHidden() method to the Context service, which returns a boolean if a context key is missing:

Context::add('url', $request->url());
Context::addHidden('hidden_url', $request->url());

Context::missing('url'); // false
Context::missing('missing_key'); // true

Context::missingHidden('url'); // true
Context::missingHidden('hidden_url'); // false

JSON Assertions on Streamed Content

Günther Debrauwer contributed the ability to use JSON assertions on a streamed JSON response:

Route::get('/users', function () {
    return response()->streamJson([
        'data' => User::cursor(),
    ]);
});

$this->getJson('/users')
    ->assertJsonCount(10, 'data')
    ->assertJsonPath('data.*.id', $users->pluck('id')->all());

Release notes

You can see the complete list of new features and updates below and the diff between 11.41.0 and 11.42.0 on GitHub. The following release notes are directly from the changelog:

v11.42.0

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