Laravel return Csrf error as json

Question

I'm building a mobile app and when a CSRF token isn't present I want to return an error in JSON instead of it returning the "TokenMismatchException" Html page.

Is there anyway to do this easily without adjusting the library code?

If your client that calls your API sends the proper headers, Laravel will return this as a json response. — Ivanka Todorova, Jun 28 '16 at 14:37

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 28 '16 at 14:18

You can create your own custom responses and make one for TokenMismatchException

So you do that in the Exceptions/Handler.php file. Something like;

public function render($request, Exception $e)
{
    if($e instanceof TokenMismatchException)
    {
        return json(......
    }

I think you might also need to include in the use statement;

use Illuminate\Session\TokenMismatchException as TokenMismatchException;

Laravel return Csrf error as json

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