How To Get Relevant Error Data Message From Failed Validation And Failed Guzzle Call In Laravel

Question

I have an api call being made in Laravel using Guzzle/Http. When an error happens I catch it in a try/catch block. I then get the message, but the problem is, I don't want this ugly message that comes back but rather the actual nested message within the $e exception variable. The problem is that the getMessage() method returns a long string from Guzzle.

Error String from $e->getMessage().

"""
Client error: `POST http://mywebApp.com/api/users` resulted in a `422 Unprocessable Entity` response: \n
{"message":"The given data was invalid.","errors":{"email":["This email is not unique"]}}]\n
"""

All I want from this string is:

This email is not unique

The API call

use GuzzleHttp\Psr7;
use GuzzleHttp\Exception\RequestException;

try {
    $client->request('POST', 'http://mywebApp.com/users', [
      'name' => 'John Doe',
      'email' => 'nonuniqueemail@test.com',
    ]);
} catch (RequestException $e) {
   $test = $e->getMessage();
   dd($test) //The long message from above
}

Does this answer your question? [Handle Guzzle exception and get HTTP body](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19748105/handle-guzzle-exception-and-get-http-body) — Don't Panic, Mar 28 '22 at 22:38
@Don'tPanic turns out I was using the wrong exception type. I needed to use `BadResponseException` instead of `RequestException` which allowed me to actually get the contents of the error with `$e->getResponse()->getBody()->getContents()['errors']` — CodeConnoisseur, Mar 29 '22 at 12:45

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 28 '22 at 22:33

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If you look closely, the response body is actually a json and can be converted into an array containing the message and an array of errors. You can call json_decode($data, true) and you should get an associative array of the response. In your case something like this should work.

$response = $client->request('POST', 'http://mywebApp.com/users', [
    'name' => 'John Doe',
    'email' => 'nonuniqueemail@test.com',
]);
$bodyData = $response->getBody();
$errors = json_decode($bodyData, true)['errors'];

edited Mar 28 '22 at 22:33

Don't Panic

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answered Mar 25 '22 at 22:37

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the `json_decode()` returns null. It might be something to do with my string not being valid json? – CodeConnoisseur Mar 28 '22 at 16:15
@Akess55 I made a mistake when first posting. I upddated the die and dump output of `$e->getMessage()` – CodeConnoisseur Mar 28 '22 at 18:16

How To Get Relevant Error Data Message From Failed Validation And Failed Guzzle Call In Laravel

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