Laravel Validation Error customise format of the Response

Question

I am working with L5 Form Requests and don\'t I just love Taylor! Well, I am doing some AJAX requests and I still want to retain my form requests. The problem is that in the

Answer 1

If you are in laravel 5+ you can easily achieve this, by overriding the invalid() or invalidJson() method in the App/Exceptions/Handler.php file

In my case, I was developing an API and the api responses should be in a specific format, so I have added the following in the Handler.php file.

/**
     * Convert a validation exception into a JSON response.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @param  \Illuminate\Validation\ValidationException  $exception
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse
     */
    protected function invalidJson($request, ValidationException $exception)
    {
        return response()->json([
            'code'    => $exception->status,
            'message' => $exception->getMessage(),
            'errors'  => $this->transformErrors($exception),

        ], $exception->status);
    }

// transform the error messages,
    private function transformErrors(ValidationException $exception)
    {
        $errors = [];

        foreach ($exception->errors() as $field => $message) {
           $errors[] = [
               'field' => $field,
               'message' => $message[0],
           ];
        }

        return $errors;
    }