Return JSON Response with form errors in Laravel

Question

So I currently validate my forms by doing:

    $this->validate($request, [
        'title'    => 'required',
        'content'  => 'required|min:3'
    ]);

How do I take these validation errors and push them back through JSON? The docs state that $this->validate(...) if false will redirect back and allow you to display errors ...

How do you validate server side for API requests?

Answer 1

You need to use Validator::make and then return response in json with array or your errors.

$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);
    if ($validator->fails())
    {
        return Response::json(['errors' => $validator->getMessageBag()->toArray()], 200);
    }

Note that you also need to setup $rules variable.
For example:

$rules = ['email' => 'required|email'];

Hope it will help.