Files in nested objects are sent during validation

[rottifant]

Laravel Precognition Plugin Version

0.5.14

Laravel Version

11.36.1

Plugin

Vue w/ Inertia

Description

When validating a specific field in a form, files that are nested within objects inside arrays are still being sent with the request payload. This behaviour is unexpected, as all Files should be removed unless specified with form.validateFiles.

This issue originates from the forgetFiles function (in validator.ts), which does not handle files nested in arrays of objects properly.

Expected behaviour:
Files within an object in an array should also be filtered to avoid sending unnecessary (large) data multiple times.

As forgetFiles is a core function this problem probably exists in all environments. (Vue, React, Blade, ...)

Steps To Reproduce

<script setup lang="ts">
import { useForm } from 'laravel-precognition-vue-inertia';

const form = useForm('post', 'my-api-route', {
    files: [
        { file: new File(['content'], 'file1.txt'), name: 'text1' },
        { file: new File(['content'], 'file2.txt'), name: 'text2' },
    ],
    otherProp: '123',
});
</script>

<template>
        <input v-model="form.otherProp" @change="form.validate('otherProp')">
</template>

<style scoped>

</style>

When an input is made, the whole form data is sent, including the files:

-----------------------------1078484437383686068291059444
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="files[0][file]"; filename="file1.txt"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

content
-----------------------------1078484437383686068291059444
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="files[0][name]"

text1
-----------------------------1078484437383686068291059444
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="files[1][file]"; filename="file2.txt"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

content
-----------------------------1078484437383686068291059444
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="files[1][name]"

text2
-----------------------------1078484437383686068291059444
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="otherProp"

1
-----------------------------1078484437383686068291059444--

[timacdonald]

Thanks for the PR, @rottifant.

I'll close this one and we can track the issue in the PR instead. I'll be taking a look at it shortly.