Laravel 5.7.13 Released

Laravel 5.7.13 was released Wednesday with some new collection methods and the ability to return an array of messages in a custom validation rule.

First, new empty collection methods were added, including whenEmpty, whenNotEmpty, unlessEmpty, and unlessNotEmpty. For example, the whenEmpty method will fire this callback on an empty collection:

<?php
 
use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
 
$collection = new Collection;
 
$collection->whenEmpty(function ($collection) {
    return $collection->push('adam');
});
 
$this->assertSame(['adam'], $collection->toArray());

The unless* behave the opposite way:

<?php
 
use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
 
$collection = new Collection;
 
$collection->unlessEmpty(function ($collection) {
    return $collection->push('adam');
});
 
$this->assertSame([], $collection->toArray());

If the collection isn’t empty, the unlessEmpty closure is called:

<?php
 
use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
 
$collection = new Collection(['user1', 'user2']);
 
$collection->unlessEmpty(function ($collection) {
    return $collection->push('user3');
});
 
$this->assertSame(['user1', 'user2, 'user3'], $collection->toArray());

Next, the ability to add an array of validation messages to custom validation rules was added. In a custom validation rule, you can return an array of messages like so:

public function message()
{
    return [
        ':attribute must be taylor',
        ':attribute must be a first name'
    ];
}

You can see the full diff between 5.7.12 and 5.7.13 on GitHub, and the full release notes below from the 5.7 changelog.

v5.7.13

Added

• Added ability to return an array of messages in a custom validation rule (#26327)
• Added whenEmpty/ whenNotEmpty / unlessEmpty / unlessNotEmpty methods to Collection (#26345)
• Added Illuminate\Support\Collection::some method (#26376, 8f7e647)
• Added Illuminate\Cache\Repository::missing method (#26351)
• Added Macroable trait to Illuminate\View\Factory (#26361)
• Added support for UNION aggregate queries (#26365)

Changed

• Updated AbstractPaginator::appends to handle null (#26326)
• Added “guzzlehttp/guzzle”: “^6.3”, to composer.json (#26328)
• Showed exception message on 403 error page when message is available (#26356)
• Don’t run TransformsRequest twice on ?query= parameters (#26366)
• Added missing logging options to slack log driver (#26360)
• Use cascade when truncating table in PostgreSQL (#26389)
• Allowed pass absolute parameter in has valid signature request macro (#26397)

Changed realization

• Used Request::validate macro in Auth traits (#26314)