Laravel responding with html default page ignoring controller-CodePudding

I'm trying to make a custom Auth controller with this code:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash;

class AuthController extends Controller
{
    public function register(Request $request)
    {
        //validate the request
        $request->validate([
            'name' => 'required|string|max:255',
            'email' => 'required|string|email|max:255|unique:users',
            'password' => 'required|string|min:8|confirmed',
        ]);

        $data = $request->all();

        //create new user
        $user = User::create([
            'name' => $data['name'],
            'email' => $data['email'],
            'password' => Hash::make($data['password']),
        ]);

        //return response
        return response()->json(['message' => 'Successfully created user!'], 201);
    }
}

the controller should create a new User entry inside the database, the User Model is Laravel's default one, no change has been made.

In my api.php routes file I have this simple routes setup:

<?php

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\AuthController;


Route::middleware('auth:sanctum')->get('/user', function (Request $request) {
    return $request->user();
});

Route::post('/register', [AuthController::class, 'register']);

the problem is that when I try to send a POST request to /api/register Laravel responds with the default html page:

what am I doing wrong here? Consider that this should be only the back-end of my app so I don't need to setup any view

CodePudding user response：

In your register method you have validation. If validation fails, it returns you back with validation errors. So you have an error in your $request fields somewhere.

Name should be string, email must be a valid email and should be unique, meaning that none of the existing users should have it. For password you must have confirmation, and that's where i think the problem is.

You should pass to this GET API route not only 'name', 'email' and 'password', but also 'password_confirmation' field which contains same password as 'password' field. I suggest for you to remove this rule to simplify the request, like this :

        //validate the request
        $request->validate([
            'name' => 'required|string|max:255',
            'email' => 'required|string|email|max:255|unique:users',
            'password' => 'required|string|min:8',
        ]);