Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Angular 6 and Laravel 5

Implementing the Controllers validation

Well, we have gone through a lot of theory, so now it is time to write some code. Let's implement the Validator on API controllers:

1. Open project/app/Http/Controllers/API/BikeController.php and add the following code right after the use App\Bike statement:

use Validator;

2. Now, add the following code inside the store(Request $request) method:

$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [    'make' => 'required',    'model' => 'required',    'year'=> 'required',    'mods'=> 'required',    'builder_id' => 'required']);if ($validator->fails()) {    return response()->json($validator->errors(), 422);}

Note that, in the previous code, we are using the response JSON format and set the errors and status code as parameters ...