Laravel request validation message formatting

Question

Using Laravel Form Request Validation,
How to customize the response format?

For example, it shows error messages as:

{
   "password":[
      "The password field is required."
   ],
   "password_confirmation":[
      "The password confirmation field is required."
   ]
}

I want to put all error messages into the description property, something like.

{
   "status":false,
   "description":[
      "The password field is required.",
      "The password confirmation field is required."
   ]
}

Answer 1

To pull out all the error messages into an array you would need to do something like this...

$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
    'password' => 'required',
    'password_confirmation' => 'required|same:password',
]);

$messages = $validator->errors()->toArray();
/* ** This will give you something like this **
*
*       'password' => 'The password field is required.',
*       'password_confirmation' => 'The password confirmation field is required.'
*
* **/

// If you want only array values - as your example of description, then use php's array_values() method like this...

$description_arr = array_values($messages);

Thanks hope this will help you..!! For better understanding of Laravel Validations go through its docs - Laravel Validation Docs

Answer 2

It's right below in the doc link that you provided:

You may customize the error messages used by the form request by overriding the messages method. This method should return an array of attribute / rule pairs and their corresponding error messages.

So, put this in your Request:

public function messages()
{
    return [
        'password.required' => 'The password field is required.',
        'password_confirmation.required'  => 'The password confirmation field is required.',
    ];
}