Laravel - Return json along with http status code

Question

If I return an object:

return Response::json([
    \'hello\' => $value
]);

the status code will be 200. How can I change it to 201, with

Answer 1

return response(['title' => trans('web.errors.duplicate_title')], 422); //Unprocessable Entity

Hope my answer was helpful.

Answer 2

You can use http_response_code() to set HTTP response code.

If you pass no parameters then http_response_code will get the current status code. If you pass a parameter it will set the response code.

http_response_code(201); // Set response status code to 201

For Laravel(Reference from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14717895/2025923):

return Response::json([
    'hello' => $value
], 201); // Status code here

Answer 3

I think it is better practice to keep your response under single control and for this reason I found out the most official solution.

response()->json([...])
    ->setStatusCode(Response::HTTP_OK, Response::$statusTexts[Response::HTTP_OK]);

add this after namespace declaration:

use Illuminate\Http\Response;

Answer 4

I prefer the response helper myself:

    return response()->json(['message' => 'Yup. This request succeeded.'], 200);

Answer 5

It's better to do it with helper functions rather than Facades. This solution will work well from Laravel 5.7 onwards

//import dependency
use Illuminate\Http\Response;

//snippet
return \response()->json([
   'status' => '403',//sample entry
   'message' => 'ACCOUNT ACTION HAS BEEN DISABLED',//sample message
], Response::HTTP_FORBIDDEN);//Illuminate\Http\Response sets appropriate headers

Answer 6

laravel 7.* You don't have to speicify JSON RESPONSE cause it's automatically converted it to JSON

return response(['Message'=>'Wrong Credintals'], 400);