Laravel 4 - Cannot catch database exception in seed or migration class

Question

Laravel 4 with MySql db. For some reason, I cannot catch DB exceptions (Illuminate\\Database\\QueryException) inside a seed or migration class: the code nev

Answer 1

You must catch "Illuminate\Database\QueryException"

try {
    $data = array('id' => 1, 'name' => 'foo');
    DB::table('table')->insert($data);
}
catch (\Illuminate\Database\QueryException $e) {
    $this->command->error("SQL Error: " . $e->getMessage() . "\n");
}