How to throw NotFoundResourceException with code status code 404 in Laravel

Question

I am trying to throw a NotFoundResourceException in Laravel programmatically

  use Symfony\Component\Translation\Exception\NotFoundResourceException;
  
  throw new NotFoundResourceException('The Item you could not be found', 404);

From the code editor I can see the hint that the second parameter is the code but this returns status 500 instead of 404

throw new NotFoundResourceException('The Item you could not be found'); without the parameter also returns status 500

I can use abort(404) as suggested in How to make Laravel 5 return 404 status code but is there a way to throw 404 error?

Answer 1

Look like you have imported wrong one NotFoundResourceException instead of NotFoundHttpException

NotFoundResourceException extended from Exception

public function __construct($message = "", 
                            $code = 0,
                           Throwable $previous = null
                          ) 

So it wont throw http exception .

If you look at implementation of NotFoundHttpException which is extended from HttpException .Constructor has

     public function __construct(?string $message = '', 
                                  \Throwable $previous = null, 
                                   int $code = 0, 
                                   array $headers = []
                                 )

So it accept second argument as $previous exception

try {
        test();
    } catch(Error $e) {

        throw new \Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\NotFoundHttpException("not found pagew",$e,404);
    }

Now if we catch error in App\Exceptions\Handler

public function render($request, Throwable $e)
    {
        if($e instanceof NotFoundHttpException){
            dump($e->getMessage());
            dump($e->getCode());
            dd($e->getPrevious());

        }

        return parent::render($request, $e); // TODO: Change the autogenerated stub
    }

it will print like below

"not found pagew"

404

Error {#353 ▼ #message: "Call to undefined function test()" #code: 0 #file: "I:\xampp\htdocs\adbs\live\sra\routes\web.php" #line: 28 trace: {▶} }