More flexible validation for larger dropdowns

[friendsofflarum]

More flexible validation for larger dropdowns

[clarkwinkelmann]

That's definitely a limitation of the system that was chosen here.

Since the AnswerValidator extends the Flarum validator, you could use custom code to listen for Flarum's Validating event and alter the validation rules. That way you can load the rules from somewhere else that's not restricted by a database column, or even use Laravel validation rules that aren't available through Masquerade like database-based validation.

[sburkett]

True, though that seems like an awful lot of work for something that seems as if should be ready-made, as it were.

Instead, perhaps a custom extension that would bring that functionality into the fold. Or, perhaps less work would be to just do a PR to add the functionality into masquerade proper.

[clarkwinkelmann]

Masquerade was never designed with dropdowns in mind.

Dropdowns are just a nice trick we introduced to make in: rules more user-friendly.

I don't really think we should be adding new features/tables to this extension at this time, we already have a hard time keeping up with maintaining the existing features 😅