symfony forms - How can I add a violation to a collection?

Question

My form looks like this:

public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
{
    $factory = $builder->getFormFactory();

    $builder->add('name');

    $builder->add('description');

    $builder->add('manufacturers', null, array(
        'required' => false
    ));

    $builder->add('departments', 'collection', array(
        'type' => new Department
    ));
}

I have a class validator on the entity the form represents which calls:

    if (!$valid) {
        $this->context->addViolationAtSubPath('departments', $constraint->message);
    }

Which will only add a 'global' error to the form, not an error at the sub path. I assume this is because departments is a collection embedding another FormType.

If I changed departments to one of the other fields it works fine.

How can I get this error to appear in the right place? I assume it would work fine if my error was on a single entity within the collection, and thus rendered in the child form, but my criteria is that the violation occur if none of the entities in the collection are marked as active, thus it needs to be at the parent level.

Answer 1

By default, forms have the option "error_bubbling" set to true, which causes the behavior you just described. You can turn off this option for individual forms if you want them to keep their errors.

$builder->add('departments', 'collection', array(
    'type' => new Department,
    'error_bubbling' => false,
));