Reference

Unfiltered Data

Available since version 2.10.0

On input filters, there are several methods for retrieving the data:

• getValues() will return all known values after filtering them.
• getRawValues() will return all known values with no filtering applied.
• getUnknown() returns the set of all unknown values (values with no corresponding input or input filter).

At times, particularly when working with collections, you may want access to the complete set of original data provided to the input filter. This can be accomplished by merging the sets returned by getRawValues() and getUnknown() when working with normal input filters, but this approach breaks down when working with collections.

Version 2.10.0 introduces a new interface, Zend\InputFilter\UnfilteredDataInterface, for dealing with this situation. Zend\InputFilter\BaseInputFilter, which forms the parent class for all shipped input filter implementations, implements the interface, which consists of the following methods:

interface UnfilteredDataInterface
{
    /**
     * @return array|object
     */
    public function getUnfilteredData()
    {
        return $this->unfilteredData;
    }

    /**
     * @param array|object $data
     * @return $this
     */
    public function setUnfilteredData($data)
    {
        $this->unfilteredData = $data;
        return $this;
    }
}

The setUnfilteredData() method is called by setData() with the full $data provided to that method, ensuring that getUnfilteredData() will always provide the original data with which the input filter was initialized, with no filtering applied.