Laravel API, how to properly handle errors

Question

Anyone know what is the best way to handle errors in Laravel, there is any rules or something to follow ?

Currently i\'m doing this :

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Answer 1

Laravel is already able to manage json responses by default.

Withouth customizing the render method in app\Handler.php you can simply throw a Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\HttpException, the default handler will recognize if the request header contains Accept: application/json and will print a json error message accordingly.

If debug mode is enabled it will output the stacktrace in json format too.

Here is a quick example:

getMessage());
        }

        return $myObject;
    }
}

Here is laravel response with debug off

{
    "message": "My custom error"
}

And here is the response with debug on

{
    "message": "My custom error",
    "exception": "Symfony\\Component\\HttpKernel\\Exception\\HttpException",
    "file": "D:\\www\\myproject\\app\\Http\\Controllers\\ApiController.php",
    "line": 24,
    "trace": [
        {
            "file": "D:\\www\\myproject\\vendor\\laravel\\framework\\src\\Illuminate\\Routing\\ControllerDispatcher.php",
            "line": 48,
            "function": "myAction",
            "class": "App\\Http\\Controllers\\ApiController",
            "type": "->"
        },
        {
            "file": "D:\\www\\myproject\\vendor\\laravel\\framework\\src\\Illuminate\\Routing\\Route.php",
            "line": 212,
            "function": "dispatch",
            "class": "Illuminate\\Routing\\ControllerDispatcher",
            "type": "->"
        },

        ...
    ]
}

Using HttpException the call will return the http status code of your choice (in this case internal server error 500)