Form request validated data is not casted to enum

[nicolasbeauvais]

Hello 👋,

When casting enums in a Form Request, only the data payload in the Request instance is getting cast. So if following best practice and getting the data with the validated method in a controller, the original pre-cast data will be returned.

class Controller
{
    public function index(MyFormRequest $request)
    {  
        $request->validated()); // Doesn't return cast data

        $request->get('status'); // Return cast data
    }
}

As a fix, I created an enhanced TransformsEnums trait implementing the following method:

public function withValidator(Validator $validator)
{
    $validator->after(function (Validator $validator) {
        $data = $validator->getData();

        /** @var Enum $enumClass */
        foreach ($this->enums() as $key => $enumClass) {
            Arr::set($data, $key, $enumClass::from($this[$key]));
        }

        $validator->setData($data);
    });
}

Do you think that this is something that could be added to the package?

I could draft a PR on this, but given the native enum support on PHP 8.1 I wanted to make sure you would continue the maintenance of laravel-enum before working on it.

Cheers.

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[nicolasbeauvais]

Not stale

[Jasperscheper]

Any updates on this?