Changing Laravel Form Validation Status to 200 from 422

Level 80

I am working on a laravel project where i am mkaing use of Jquery Ajax to validate the form which is returning a 422 status but i need a 200 status

@brand12 No, you really don’t 😬

200 means "OK". The response was not “OK” if there are validation errors.

How are on earth are you intending to distinguish between successful responses and error responses if it just returns 200 OK every time?

Laravel returns a 422 status for validation errors because it’s a good convention to do so. So handle requests properly instead of trying to override good conventions with absolutely terrible ones.

Execute your request. Change how you handle the response based on the status code:

$('#loginform').on('submit', function (event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    
    $.ajax({
        data: new FormData(event.target),
        dataType: 'json',
        error: function (xhr) {
            // Login request errored, so actually handle errors
            // i.e. display validation messages next to inputs
            $.each(xhr.response.errors, function (field, messages) {
                // Display messages next to field
            });
        },
        method: 'POST',
        success: function (data) {
            // Login request was successful
            // Do whatever
        },
        url: '/api/tourist_login',
    });
});

Also, you don’t “log in” to RESTful APIs.

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Level 1

@martinbean thanks for that. What name can i give the route, i just started the world of routing and Laravel of a thing, apologies if I have lots of spaghetti code written there.

I am wanting to ask, in the console of my browser, it's flagging some error about the 422 status, is it normal.

Level 122

@Brand12 probably because you dont handle the error

Level 122

@Brand12 Regarding your route Route::post('/tourist_login use of underscore in URLs is generally frowned on

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Level 1

@Snapey okay, thanks sir, are camel or pascal case acceptable

Level 122

@Brand12 no, stick with lowercase and hyphens, eg tourist-login or just touristlogin

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martinbean

Level 80

@Brand12 The route name isn’t the problem. Why are you intercepting a form submission, to do a “login” via AJAX in the first place? Why aren’t you just submitting to a /login route to log a user in? Why are you doing it via AJAX, and to a route prefixed with “/api”?

Level 1

@martinbean ohh, just trying something, the thing i wanted to do is that i don't want the page to reload because the form is in a modal.

martinbean

Level 80

@Brand12 The page won’t reload if you make the request using AJAX, as you’ll receive a JSON response with a 422 status code and the validation errors in the response body.

Level 122

what happened to your original question, at which I also gave the same comment

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Level 1

@Snapey when I posted it and saw that the codes aren't pretty, was looking for how to make it pretty so, i deleted it to not let it be seen, just joined the community today kind of new to the ecosystem, didn't know seen and replied, apologies.

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Level 51

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