Laravel custom form requests not validating - php

Question

I'm have created a custom form request in my laravel 5.6 something like this:
<?php
namespace Noetic\Plugins\blog\Requests;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;
class StorePostRequest extends FormRequest
{
/**
* Determine if the user is authorized to make this request.
*
* #return bool
*/
public function authorize()
{
return true;
}
/**
* Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
*
* #return array
*/
public function rules()
{
return [
];
}
}
When I do not place anything in rules, I get the controllers working, and when I put any rule inside suppose I put
return [
'title' => 'required',
'body' => 'required',
];
It works until it gets validated true, I mean if title and body is passed it gets validated, but when I don't send any data for title or body I'm not getting errors as response, I see the home page belonging to web middleware, I want to return the error data as response.
My controller is something like this:
public function store( StorePostRequest $request )
{
if ($request->fails()) {
return $this->errorResponse($request->errors()->all());
}
$data = $request->only('title', 'body');
$post = Post::create($data);
return response()->json(['post'=> $post ],200);
}
Help me out with these. Thanks

Answer 1

In your controller function you don't need to catch the validation just try with success path.
Handler will handle your validation
public function store( StorePostRequest $request )
{
$data = $request->only('title', 'body');
$post = Post::create($data);
return response()->json(['post'=> $post ],200);
}
In your Handler
use Illuminate\Validation\ValidationException;
if ($exception instanceof ValidationException)
{
return response($exception->errors())->header('Content-Type', 'application/json');
}

Answer 2

use Illuminate\Contracts\Validation\Validator;
use Illuminate\Http\Exceptions\HttpResponseException;
after that
protected function failedValidation(Validator $validator) {
throw new HttpResponseException(response()->json($validator->errors(), 422));
}