/**
* Retrieve the rules necessary for updating user profile information.
* This use-case is unique in such that, if the password fields are empty,
* we don't need to validate them, as the user is not changing their password.
*
* @param array $input
*/
public function __construct(array $input = [])
{
parent::__construct($input);
if ($input['password'] == null || $input['password'] == "") {
unset($this->rules['password']);
unset($this->rules['passwordConfirmation']);
}
}
/**
* Validates the rules provided either by a custom method or on the class against the user input provided.
*
* @throws ValidationException
* @return boolean
*/
public function validate()
{
$validator = ValidatorFacade::make($this->getInput(), $this->getRules());
if ($validator->fails()) {
throw new ValidationException($validator);
}
return true;
}