Laravel-Excel toArray validation not working - php

Question

I'm using the laravel-excel package and want to import excel into an array, it works well for the main code (without validation), but when I tried to add validation/rule, the validation not working properly (I mean, like the validation is just skipped, so if I upload a file that doesn't fit the format, the array output still comes out), here's my import code
<?php
namespace App\Imports;
use App\Models\Request;
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Concerns\ToModel;
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Concerns\Importable;
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Concerns\WithHeadingRow;
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Concerns\WithValidation;
use Illuminate\Validation\Rule;
class RequestImport implements ToModel, WithValidation, WithHeadingRow
{
use Importable;
/**
* #param array $row
*
* #return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model|null
*/
public function model(array $row)
{
return new Request([
'no' => $row[0],
'username' => $row[1],
'name' => $row[2],
]);
}
// create validation by heading row
public function rules(): array
{
return [
'no' => 'required',
'username' => 'required',
'name' => 'required',
];
}
}
and here's my controller code when I call the RequestImport class
$file = request()->file('fileExcel');
// save file
if (isset($request->upload)) {
$this->saveFile($file);
}
// return excel import into array
$data = (new RequestImport)->toArray($file); //here I call the RequestImport
return response()->json([
'status' => 'success',
'message' => 'success,
'data' => $data[0],
]);
Is something wrong with my code? or I missed something?

Answer 1

it's not official but I found a workaround.
first, I added importable concern,
then defined a class attribute $data.
this will store rows once all validations are satisfied.
<?php
namespace App\Imports;
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Concerns\Importable;
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Concerns\ToArray;
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Concerns\WithHeadingRow;
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Concerns\WithValidation;
class ImportData implements ToArray, WithValidation, WithHeadingRow
{
use Importable;
public $data;
public function array(array $rows)
{
$this->data = $rows;
}
public function rules(): array
{
return [
// validation rules
];
}
}
in my controller
$import = new ImportData;
Excel::import($import, request()->file('file'));
return response()->json($import->data);