How to catch exception when Laravel cannot connect to Redis?

Question

Iam using Redis as cache in Laravel.

But I cannot catch Exception when laravel cannot connect to Redis (redis stopped, ...). I want catch this exception to reponse to client by JSON.

How can I do it ?

Answer 1

You can use render() function of App\Exceptions\Handler class as:

public function render($request, Exception $exception)
{
    if ($exception instanceof SomeRedisException) {
        return response()->json('Redis Error',500);
    }

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

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