Validate Vue Object in Laravel Controller

You're trying to validate on the data itself and not the request object. Try this instead:

$attributes = request()->validate([
     ...
]);

I have, it yields:

{
message: "The given data was invalid.",
errors: {
title: [
"The title field is required."
],
body: [
"The body field is required."
],
svg: [
"The svg field is required."
]
}
}

In your rules, try this:

'urgent.title' => 'required|min:5|max:24',
...

If you don't like doing that, then make the ajax request like this instead:

axios.post('/urgent', { ...this.urgent });

I have actually tried that as well.... ;-)

Response:

message: "SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1364 Field 'title' doesn't have a default value (SQL: insert into `urgents` (`updated_at`, `created_at`) values (2019-02-08 22:25:58, 2019-02-08 22:25:58))",

Do you have those fields in $fillable on your model?

I do. FWIW, the following works......

VUE

axios.post('/urgent', { title: this.urgent.title, body:this.urgent.body, svg:this.urgent.svg })

CONTROLLER

$attributes = request()->validate([
                'title' => 'required|min:5|max:24', 
                'body' => 'required|min:10|max:255', 
                'svg' => 'required|min:3|max:25'
            ]);

I just trying to refactor so I don't have to send each attribute individually.......

What happens if you dd($attributes) in your controller?

It returns the complete urgent object. It's all there..........

Well then if you're calling Urgent::create($attributes) it should create the model record correctly, unless you haven't provided those attributes in the model's $fillable array or just made $guarded = [] on the model.

It's all there. I can update Models with the same approach but calling validate() fails when I pass the entire object instead of individual attributes????

It seems as if I'm using values instead of keys in the controller.

CONTROLLER:

request('urgent.title')    // returns 'A Valid Title'

If you're still passing the data to the controller as an array inside of urgent, then just do this:

Urgent::create($attributes['urgent']);

What you've suggested works to create and update but I still want to to validate the entire object. It's the validate() method that throws the error.

For now, I will just send each attribute via { id: this.urgent.id, ....etc } but if someone stumbles upon this with a solution - I'll take it.

Thanks @wilk_randall