How to create a validated DTO instance?

[raveren]

Hello, the company I work at has adopted spatie/data and are building quite a lot of functionality using it, but I have a basic question.

I find it very surprising the from() method does NOT validate the provided payload.

There's not even an example in the validation documentation on how you suggest to validate payloads. Seems a lot of needless lines if we have to

MyDto::validate($payload);
$dto = MyDto::from($payload);

what is the proper way and is there a single statement to validate and get an instance?

[raveren]

https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-data/v3/as-a-data-transfer-object/request-to-data-object#content-validating-a-data-object-without-request

SongData::validateAndCreate(['title' => 'Never gonna give you up', 'artist' => 'Rick Astley']);