How to get Proper status code with laravel 5 API

Question

How can i get the Status code while creating an API with laravel5.

Here is what i am trying to do.

return Response::json( array( 'error' => false, 'results' => $results, 'status_code' => 200 etc ));

All i want to change this status code,as it may be 404,201 etc

#Waqas, You Means how to get query status ? and than return that status back in response — Muhammad Sadiq, Nov 02 '16 at 07:43
If that is the situation ,than you should decide the status depends on the query result and return it with response. — Muhammad Sadiq, Nov 02 '16 at 07:47
than check the $result, if it is empty than status = 404 and if not than set status accordingly — Muhammad Sadiq, Nov 02 '16 at 07:55

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 02 '16 at 07:17

3

You should set status code as second parameter, so return response like this:

return response()->json($results, 201);

answered Nov 02 '16 at 07:17

Alexey Mezenin

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 02 '16 at 07:23

0

You can use a common function like,

public function returnResponse($message, $statusCode)
{
  return response()->json($message, $statusCode);
}

or

public function returnResponse($message, $statusCode)
{
  return response()->json(['message' => $message], $statusCode); 
}

You can call like as ,

$this->returnResponse('ThankYou for use this', 200); //or
$this->returnResponse('There is an error..!!', 422);

You can use above like something, if you can use without function,

return response()->json(['message' => $message], 201);

I hope, it will help you.

answered Nov 02 '16 at 07:23

Rama Durai

I am having issue how do i get $statusCode ? once i get it then i can pass it to a function or use it where else need it? – Khirad Zahra Nov 02 '16 at 07:36
@WaqasAli we have a various code, refer some web site and you can fix with that code. ex:- http://www.restapitutorial.com/httpstatuscodes.html – Rama Durai Nov 02 '16 at 07:40

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