Want to remove attribute array in my response Laravel api-CodePudding

This is my code. I just want to remove attribute array from message because I’m not fetching error on my frontend on angular and andriod app.

public function createCountry(Request $coun)
{
    $validate = Validator::make($coun->all(), [
        'country_name' => 'required|unique:countries,country_name|regex:/^[a-zA-Z\s] $/',
    ]);
    if ($validate->fails()) {
        return response()->json(['code' => 400, 'message' => $validate->errors()], 400);
    } else {
        $country = Country::create([
            'country_name' => $coun->input('country_name'),
        ]);
        return response()->json(['code' => 201, 'message' => 'Country Created Successfully',
            'object' => $country], 201);
    }
}

This is my response

{
    "code": 400,
    "message": {
        "country_name": [
            "The country name already exist.",
            "The country name format is invalid."
        ]
    }
}

CodePudding user response：

If you're just looking to return the error messages without their keys, then you want to use the all() method available on the MessageBag object.

public function createCountry(Request $coun)
{
    $validate = Validator::make($coun->all(), [
        'country_name' => 'required|unique:countries,country_name|regex:/^[a-zA-Z\s] $/',
    ]);

    if ($validate->fails()) {
        // Note the use of all() after calling the errors() method
        return response()->json(['code' => 400, 'message' => $validate->errors()->all()], 400);
    }

    $country = Country::create([
        'country_name' => $coun->input('country_name'),
    ]);

    return response()->json([
        'code' => 201, 'message' => 'Country Created Successfully',
        'object' => $country
    ], 201);
}

This will result in the keys being omitted from the response:

{
    "code": 400,
    "message": [
        "The country name already exist.",
        "The country name format is invalid."
    ]
}

Update 1

If you don't want the array brackets included for a single error message, then you could do the following:

if ($validate->fails()) {
    $messages = $validate->errors()->count() > 1 ? $validate->errors()->all() : $validate->errors()->first();
    return response()->json(['code' => 400, 'message' => $messages], 400);
}