Error Handling in Laravel, how can specify on Routes? - php

Question

The basic of this is, I want to handle errors from my API and make sure all errors thrown via the API give json responses but for the website I want HTML responses to be sent.
If there a better way then purely applying the logic from http://laravel.com/docs/requests#request-information and using something like:
if (Request::is('admin/*'))
{
//
}
This works but seems a tiny bit clunky doing it for each exception type that might be thrown? The documentation doesn't seem to have anything but I was wandering if there's anything that might work so can apply errors for set route wildcards? Something like:
App::error('admin/*', function(Exception $exception)
{
Log::error($exception);
});

Answer 1

You can add an App::error filter and in that filter do the Route check, and then send a response in json. A simple example like this:
App::error(function(Exception $exception) {
if (Request::is('api/*')) {
$message = get_class($exception) . ":: message: " . $exception->getMessage();
return Response::json(["success"=>false,"message"=>$message]);
}
});

Answer 2

You could use a Route Group http://laravel.com/docs/routing#route-groups and apply a filter on the group, or prehaps you could use the App::error method if you declared it inside a prefixed route group http://four.laravel.com/docs/routing#route-prefixing . I'm not 100% whether either method would work, but if you have no luck the Laravel IRC is very active see http://laravel.io/irc for a quick easy web client.