gookit / validate / 26208967737

Pull #335

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fix(validators): handle pointer fields in RequiredIf

RequiredIf silently skipped its check whenever either side of the rule
was a pointer:

  - When the destination field is a pointer (e.g. *bool), reflect.ValueOf
    returns a value of Kind Pointer. convTypeByBaseKind has no
    string-to-Pointer conversion, so dstVal == wantVal was never
    evaluated and the function fell through to default-True / skip.

  - When the source field is a pointer to a zero value (e.g.
    *string("")), val != nil && !IsEmpty(val) was true, so the
    rule's 'must be present and not empty' contract was not enforced.

Unwrap pointers on both sides: treat a nil pointer as the field being
absent (rule does not trigger, dependent field remains optional), and
treat a pointer to a zero value as the zero value itself for the
not-empty check. Adds five subtests covering each pointer scenario;
two of them fail on the old code and pass on the new code.

Closes #334

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