I am building an API, and the response from validation of the incoming request does not return it the way I would want.
It may be Json, however I need to add a message stating its an error.
Change from
{
"username": [
"The username field is required."
],
"password": [
"The password field is required."
]
}
to
{
"status": "error",
"message": [
"The username field is required.",
"The password field is required."
]
}
Is this possible?
For forms, you have to overide the messages method and it should return an array of attributes-rule pairs for the error message to be customized.
public function messages()
{
return [
'username.required' => 'The username field is required.',
'password.required' => 'The password field is required.',
];
}
or
$messages = [
'email.required' => 'We need to know your e-mail address!',
];
Here is what I did, bound the validator object to a variable. Got the errors, got the errors in array format, then simply pushed the array to json format and added it to messages.
$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
'server_id' => 'required|integer|exists:servers,id',
'username' => 'required|between:6,20|unique:databases',
'password' => 'required|between:10,20',
]);
$errors = $validator->errors();
$errors = $errors->all();
if ($errors) {
return response()->json([
"status" => "error",
"message" => $errors,
]);
}
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