Enabling withTrashed method automatically in the Rule class (Validation\Rule)

[AliBayat]

Greetings everyone

Thanks to the interesting Rule class (Illuminate\Validation\Rule) laravel's form requests are much more readable and more nice to look at. however, there's a little thing that's been annoying me through development.

we do have unique and exists methods in the Rule class which are used more often. there's also a withoutTrashed method which comes in handy when we are using the SoftDeletes trait in the models.

I've checked the code and realized we can also pass a model as the first argument to the unique method..
if that's the case then while initializing it, we can also check if the model is using soft deletes and apply withoutTrashed automatically.

I think some simple checks as below would provide the functionality in question:

        if (is_subclass_of($table, Model::class)) {
            $model = new $table;
            
            if (! $model->forceDeleting) {
                $this->withoutTrashed();
            }
        }

I'm wondering what you think about it

Regards, Ali.