How to force FormRequest return json in Laravel 5.1?

Question

I\'m using FormRequest to validate from which is sent in an API call from my smartphone app. So, I want FormRequest alway return json when validation fail.

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Answer 1

It boggles my mind why this is so hard to do in Laravel. In the end, based on your idea to override the Request class, I came up with this.

app/Http/Requests/ApiRequest.php

Then, in every controller just pass \App\Http\Requests\ApiRequest

public function index(ApiRequest $request)