JSON-Response Laravel Package

Overview

The JSON-Response package provides a simple and minimalistic interface for handling JSON responses in your Laravel applications. It offers convenient methods for returning success responses and error responses with standardized formats.

Installing

You can install the JSON-Response package via Composer. Run the following command in your terminal:

composer require hyder/json-response

Optional

The service provider will automatically get registered. Or you may manually add the service provider in your config/app.php file:

'providers' => [
    // ...
    Hyder\JsonResponse\JsonResponseServiceProvider::class,
];

Uses

Basic Usage

To use the JSON-Response package, you need to import the JsonResponse facade and make use of its methods in your controllers or routes.

use Hyder\JsonResponse\Facades\JsonResponse;

// ...

public function store(Request $request)
{
    try {

        // Validate the incoming request
        $validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
            // Validation rules
        ]);

        // Check if validation fails
        if ($validator->fails()) {
            // Return a validation error response
            return JsonResponse::validationError($validator->errors());
        }

        // Process the request and create a new resource

        // Return a success response
        return JsonResponse::created($message);
    } catch(\Exception $ex){
        return JsonResponse::internalError($ex->getMessage());
    }

}

public function update(Request $request, $id)
{
    // Process the request and update the specified resource

    // Return a success response
    return JsonResponse::updated($message);
}

Available Success Methods

The following methods are available for returning success responses:

1. created($message = "Data created successfully!", $data = null)
   Returns a response with a 201 Created status code, a success message, and optional data.
2. updated($message = "Data updated successfully!", $data = null)
   Returns a response with a 200 OK status code, a success message, and optional data.
3. success($message = "Request completed successfully!")
   Returns a response with a 200 OK status code and a success message.
4. withData($data, $message = "Data fetched successfully!")
   Returns a response with a 200 OK status code, a success message, and the provided data.

Method Chaining

You can chain methods together for more flexibility:

// Return a success response with a custom status code and message
return JsonResponse::statusCode($statusCode)->success('Your message');

// Return a success response with a custom status code, header, and message
return JsonResponse::statusCode($statusCode)->withHeader($header)->success('Your message');

Please note that the statusCode() method will not affect the chaining when using the created() method.

Success Response

{
  "status": true,
  "message": "Your message",
  "data": {
    // ...
  }
}

Available Error Methods

The following methods are available for returning error responses:

1. badRequest($message = "Bad request!")
   Returns a response with a 400 Bad Request status code and an optional error message. This method is used to indicate a general "bad request" error.

2. unauthenticated($message = 'Unauthenticated!')
   Returns a response with a 401 Unauthorized status code and an optional error message. It is used to indicate that the user making the request is not authenticated.

3. invalidRequest($message = 'Invalid request!')
   Returns a response with a 403 Forbidden status code and an optional error message. It is used to indicate that the request is invalid or does not meet the server's expectations.

4. validationError($message = 'Required field is missing!')
   Returns a response with a 422 Unprocessable Entity status code and an optional error message. It is used to indicate that the request data failed validation checks.

5. notFound($message = 'Not found!')
   Returns a response with a 404 Not Found status code and an optional error message. It is used to indicate that the requested resource was not found.

6. internalError($message = 'Internal server error!')
   Returns a response with a 500 Internal Server Error status code and an optional error message. It is used to indicate that an unexpected internal server error occurred.

7. error($message = 'Something went wrong!', int $statusCode = 500)
   Returns a response with the specified status code and error message.

Please note that you can provide a custom error message for each error response if needed.

Feel free to adjust the method names and default error messages to better suit your application's needs.

Chaining with error method

You can chain methods together for more flexibility:

// Return a error response with a custom status code and message
return JsonResponse::statusCode($statusCode)->error($message);

// Return a error response with a custom status code, header, and message
return JsonResponse::withHeader($header)->error($message, 400);

Please note that the statusCode() method will affect only when chaining with error() method.

Response

{
  "status": false,
  "message": "Your message" // Message can contain any data type
}

Customized Response

In addition to the provided methods, you can also return a customized JSON response using the response() method. This method allows you to specify the data, status code, and headers for the response.

// Return a custom response with a custom status code and data
return JsonResponse::statusCode($statusCode)->response($array);

// Return a custom response with a custom status code, header, and data
return JsonResponse::statusCode($statusCode)->withHeader($header)->response($array);

License

This package is open-source software licensed under the MIT license.

Credits

This package is developed and maintained by Tofayel Hyder Abhi.