Custom Request Validator in Laravel

Question

I just want to validate API requests using laravel custom Request Handler. For this I have created a RegisterRequest, with the following content.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Requests\Api\Auth;

use App\Http\Requests\Request;

class RegisterRequest extends Request
{
    /**
     * Determine if the user is authorized to make this request.
     *
     * @return bool
     */
    public function authorize()
    {
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function rules()
    {
        return [
            'email' => 'required'
        ];
    }
}

And, I want it to use in AuthController as:

use App\Http\Requests\Api\Auth\RegisterRequest;

    public function postRegister(RegisterRequest $request)
    {
        dd($request->all());
    }

But, neither the validation nor the request parameters are shown in the respose. All the routing are working fine, but the query paremeters are empty. Any help will be appriciated.

Version: Laravel: 5.1

I want to let laravel handle all request parameters and say API whether the request is made successful or with errors.

You request does not even reach the controller method, so you can't dd anything ;D — naneri

Kiran Subedi Kiran Subedi · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-25T09:11:56

Your authorize method should return true. If it is false , RegisterRequest will return forbidden because you are not authorize to use this RegisterRequest class . So, change your authorize method from RegisterRequest to this :

public function authorize()
{
    return true;
}

Edit : If you want to reply the error message in your way you can override the response method in RegisterRequest method like this :

public function response(array $errors)
{
    return \Response::json($errors);
}

Custom Request Validator in Laravel

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