Laravel "Required" Validation Causes Validation To Fail - php

Question

I'm trying to validate data gathered from a json file. If I don't include the "required" validation, the validation passes, but when I add it back in it fails for some reason. I don't understand how it would be failing if all fields it's checking against aren't null.
Anything obvious that I'm missing?
Controller:
// START: Validate request
$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
'results.*.status.*.name' => 'required|max:255',
'results.*.error.*.name' => 'required',
'results.*.messageId' => 'required',
'results.*.doneAt' => 'required|date',
'results.*.smsCount' => 'required|numeric',
'results.*.sentAt' => 'required',
'results.*.callbackData' => 'required',
]); // The "required" is causing the validation to fail
if ($validator->fails()) {
dd('fail');
} else {
dd('pass');
}
// END: Validate request
Json data:
{
"results": [
{
"bulkId": "BULK-ID-123-xyz",
"price": {
"pricePerMessage": 0.0185,
"currency": "GBP"
},
"status": {
"id": 5,
"groupId": 3,
"groupName": "DELIVERED",
"name": "DELIVERED_TO_HANDSET",
"description": "Message delivered to handset"
},
"error": {
"id": 0,
"name": "NO_ERROR",
"description": "No Error",
"groupId": 0,
"groupName": "OK",
"permanent": false
},
"messageId": "MESSAGE_UUID",
"doneAt": "2022-11-21T17:11:16.661+0000",
"smsCount": 1,
"sentAt": "2022-11-21T17:11:12.129+0000",
"callbackData": "CAMPAIGN_ID",
"to": "447572554668"
}
]
}

Answer 1

You simply just have to replace this:
'results.*.status.*.name' => 'required|max:255|nullable',
'results.*.error.*.name' => 'required|nullable',
With this:
'results.*.status.*' => 'required|max:255|nullable',
'results.*.error.*' => 'required|nullable',
You are getting error because of there is no name key in status properties and you want them to be required.