How do you force a JSON response on every response in Laravel?

Question

I\'m trying to build a REST api using Laravel Framework, I want a way to force the API to always responed with JSON not by doing this manulaly like:

return Respo         


        

Answer 1

You can create an After Middleware and change structure of all responses

Middleware:

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;

class ChangeResponseStructureMiddleware
{
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        $response = $next($request);

        $newContent = [
            'data' => $response->getOriginalContent(),
            'context' => [
                'code' => $response->getStatusCode()
            ]
        ];

        return $response->setContent($newContent);
    }
}

this middleware will force the response content to be like

{
   "data": "response content of controller",
   "context": {
       "code": 200 // status code
   }
}