Laravel custom validation and ajax - php

Question

The validation on my Laravel 4.2 project was done with Ardent package. After going to Laravel 5.5 I have eliminated Ardent and wanted to do Laravel's native validation with form requests.
The problem I have is that the Ajax call was validated before like this:
public function postRegisterAjax(A)
{
try {
...
} catch (ExceptionBag $e) {
$msg = $e->getMessageBag()->all(':message');
$status = Status::ERROR;
}
return $this->responseJson($status, $msg);
}
Now I introduced UserValidationRequest class and I would like Ajax call to throw me an error message without the need to reload the page. In order to do that, I need to forward status and message as Json response.
I somehow tried to do that with after validation hooks, but it doesn't work:
protected function getValidatorInstance()
{
$validator = parent::getValidatorInstance();
if ($validator->fails()) {
\Log::info($validator->errors());
$msg = $validator->errors();
$status = Status::ERROR;
return response()->json(['response' => [
'status' => $status,
'msg' => $msg,
]]);
}
return $validator;
}
The code fails on return response() saying that Method passes does not exist (Illuminate/Support/Traits/Macroable.php:96).
Does anyone know what seems to be the issue?

Answer 1

From Laravel 5.x version (not sure), failedValidation() method was introduced in form requests instead of what Laravel 4.x had as response().
I resolved my issue by tailoring the response to my needs by overriding that method in my form request:
public function failedValidation(Validator $validator)
{
if ($validator->fails()) {
$status = Status::ERROR;
throw new HttpResponseException(response()->json(["response" => [
'msg' => $validator->errors()->all(':message'),
'status' => $status
]]));
}
return response()->json(["response" => [
'msg' => 'User successfully registered',
'status' => Status::SUCCESS
]]);
}