Catch not found error by certain route prefix [Laravel] - php

Question

I'm building web api along side with website in laravel 5.2, when user visit unavailable url on my web like http://stage.dev/unavailable/link then it will throw on 404 page on errors view resource, then i want to catch with different way if user try to access my API with unavailable url like http//stage.dev/api/v1/unavailable/link, then i want to return json/xml response
{
'status' : 'not found',
'code' : 404,
'data' : []
}
not the view, is there a way to detect it by url prefix 'api/*' or how.., maybe another approach with similar result, so the device/client which access it could proceed by standard format (i have simple format in all json response)
{
'status' : 'success|failed|restrict|...',
'api_id' : '...',
'token' : '...',
'data' : [
{'...' : '...'},
{'...' : '...'},
...
]
}
SOLVED
I figure out something after read answer from Chris and Alexey this approach works for me i add couples of lines in handler.php at render() method,
if($e instanceof ModelNotFoundException || $this->isHttpException($e)) {
if($request->segment(1) == 'api' || $request->ajax()){
$e = new NotFoundHttpException($e->getMessage(), $e);
$result = collect([
'request_id' => uniqid(),
'status' => $e->getStatusCode(),
'timestamp' => Carbon::now(),
]);
return response($result, $e->getStatusCode());
}
}
my header request respond 404 error code and return json data like i want..

Answer 1

Maybe there's a better way to do that, but you could create custom error 404 handler. Follow this tutorial, but change case 404 part to something like this:
if(str_contains(Request::url(), 'api/v1/')){
return response()->json(your_json_data_here);
}else{
return \Response::view('custom.404',array(),404);
}

Answer 2

Inside App\Exception\Handler.php you have a render method which can be handy for general purpose error catching and handling.
In this case you can also use the request()->ajax() method to determine if it's ajax. It does this by checking that certain headers are present, in particular:
'XMLHttpRequest' == $this->headers->get('X-Requested-With')
Anyway, back to the render method in Handler.php.
You can do something like:
public function render($request, Exception $e)
{
if($e instanceof HttpException && $e->getStatusCode() == 404) {
if (request()->ajax()) {
return response()->json(['bla' => 'foo']);
} else {
return response()->view('le-404');
}
}
return parent::render($request, $e);
}

Answer 3

I figure out something after read answer from Chris and Alexey this approach works for me i add couples of lines in handler.php at render() method,,
if($e instanceof ModelNotFoundException || $this->isHttpException($e)) {
if($request->segment(1) == 'api' || $request->ajax()){
$e = new NotFoundHttpException($e->getMessage(), $e);
$result = collect([
'request_id' => uniqid(),
'status' => $e->getStatusCode(),
'timestamp' => Carbon::now(),
]);
return response($result, $e->getStatusCode());
}
}