Laravel API, how to properly handle errors

Question

Anyone know what is the best way to handle errors in Laravel, there is any rules or something to follow ?

Currently i\'m doing this :

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Answer 1

I think it would be better to modify existing behaviour implemented in app/Exceptions/Handler.php than overriding it.

You can modify JSONResponse returned by parent::render($request, $exception); and add/remove data.

Example implementation:
app/Exceptions/Handler.php

use Illuminate\Support\Arr;

// ... existing code

public function render($request, Exception $exception)
{
    if ($request->is('api/*')) {
        $jsonResponse = parent::render($request, $exception);
        return $this->processApiException($jsonResponse);
    }

    return parent::render($request, $exception);
}

protected function processApiException($originalResponse)
{
    if($originalResponse instanceof JsonResponse){
        $data = $originalResponse->getData(true);
        $data['status'] = $originalResponse->getStatusCode();
        $data['errors'] = [Arr::get($data, 'exception', 'Something went wrong!')];
        $data['message'] = Arr::get($data, 'message', '');
        $originalResponse->setData($data);
    }

    return $originalResponse;
}