Inspired by the recent “parse, don't validate" conversations, I had the thought to make a composer package for #Laravel that basically replaced the FormRequest concept with a “ParsedRequest" concept. Effectively defining a request object that instead of running input through the validator, it would parse the input onto your custom ParsedRequest and have everything just there and typed.

Currently stuck on if ParsedRequest should extend FormRequest to keep validation func. still working, or not.

The high of finally figuring something out, and getting a test to pass cannot be beat. At least not without doing actual drugs that get you high, but I digress.

I have the beginnings of sticking @Romm's Valinor project into the #Laravel framework. Basic Laravel bindings and configuration are done for a 0.0.1 version. And finally got a working PoC for a ParsedRequest idea I have to compliment/replace FormRequests. Much more to go

I’ve kinda lost my programming “muse” at the moment, but don’t necessarily want to let this project idea die on the vine. So I’ve made https://github.com/hskrasek/laravel-valinor public in case anyone is inspired and would love to see Valinor incorporated into #Laravel. Will hopefully have the motivation to return to the idea in the future.