Nullable field

[WimWidgets]

It would be great if I could make the Enum field nullable. Even if I add ->nullable() to my field configuration, the input can't be null, because of a hard-coded ->rules('required', ... in the Enum field class (line 25).

[mdpoulter]

Hi @WimWidgets. By the looks of it, nullable enums aren't yet supported in the Enum itself (see BenSampo/laravel-enum#172). I would accept a PR to allow the field to be nullable if the previously mentioned PR is merged.

In the meantime, could you not just create a "Null" constant in your Enum class, like this?

final class UserType extends Enum
{
    const Null = -1;
    const Administrator = 0;
    const Moderator = 1;
}

[jeurrutia]

Hi,

I have the same problem but I have a string enum. What would it be the workaround for this case?

Thanks

[mdpoulter]

I assume you could do something like const Null = 'NULL';. You could also use the parseDatabase method as described here: https://github.com/BenSampo/laravel-enum#casting-underlying-native-types

I'm closing this now as it seems the original issue and PR (BenSampo/laravel-enum#172) have both been closed.