Laravel: Custom validation messages in Custom Form Requests - php

Question

I am trying to keep my controller clean and move the custom request validation in to a separate class as:
public function register(RegisterUserRequest $request)
and in there define all the usual functions, such as
public function rules(),
public function messages(), and
public function authorize()
However, the frontend is expecting the following data to display:
title (title related to the validation error message), description (which is the the actual validation error message), and status (=red, yellow etc)
How can I actually customise the response of the request?
Something like this, does not seem to be working:
protected function failedValidation(\Illuminate\Contracts\Validation\Validator $validator)
{
$response = new Response(['data' => [],
'meta' => [
'title' => 'Email Invalid'
'description' => '(The error message as being returned right now)',
'status' => 'red'
]);
throw new ValidationException($validator, $response);
}
Any ideas?

Answer 1

you can do this by making request in laravel as the following :
php artisan make:request FailedValidationRequest
this command will create class called FailedValidationRequest in
App\Http\Request directory and you cab write your rules inside this class as the following:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Requests;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;
class FailedValidationRequest 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 [
'title' => 'required'
'description' => 'required',
'status' => 'required|numeric'
];
}
}
and if you want to customize the error message you can download the language you want from this link using composer:
https://packagist.org/packages/caouecs/laravel-lang
and write the language you want by copying the languge folwder to the lang directory in your resource folder.
'custom' => [
'title' => [
'required' => 'your custom message goes here',
],
'decription' => [
'required' => 'your custom message goes here',
],
],