Laravel 5: Handle exceptions when request wants JSON

Question

I\'m doing file uploads via AJAX on Laravel 5. I\'ve got pretty much everything working except one thing.

When I try to upload a file that is too big (Bigger than

Answer 1

In your application you should have app/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php. In that file you can handle how the middleware runs. So you could check if the request is ajax and handle that how you like.

Alternativly, and probably a better solution, would be to edit the exception handler to return json. See app/exceptions/Handler.php, something like the below would be a starting place

public function render($request, Exception $e)
{
    if ($request->ajax() || $request->wantsJson())
    {
        $json = [
            'success' => false,
            'error' => [
                'code' => $e->getCode(),
                'message' => $e->getMessage(),
            ],
        ];

        return response()->json($json, 400);
    }

    return parent::render($request, $e);
}