[Proposal] MessageBag Constructor

[loic-sharma]

Creating a new instance of a MessageBag and then manually adding each message is tedious. Being able to pass messages in the constructor may be an alternative. For example, currently this needs to be done:

$messages = new MessageBag;

$messages->add('username', 'The username does not exist.');
$messages->add('password', 'Incorrect password.');

Instead, this may be better:

$messages = new MessageBag(array(
    'username' => 'The username does not exist.',
    'password' => 'Incorrect password.',
));

This would also need to support multiple errors for the same key. That would look something like:

$messages = new MessageBag(array(
    'username' => 'The username does not exist.',
    'password' => array(
        'The password is required.',
        'Incorrect password.',
    ),
));

[loic-sharma]

Also, should the add method be able to accept arrays? This would allow for something like:

$messages = new MessageBag;

$messages->add(array(
    'username' => 'The username does not exist.',
    'password' => array(
        'The password is required.',
        'Incorrect password.',
    ),
));

[jasonlewis]

I like the idea of passing in an array of messages when creating a new instance. Also could see the array based add() being a winner too.

[JonoB]

+1

[dberry37388]

+1

[taylorotwell]

Done.

Added merge method to take care of adding with arrays.