Why is my create form request throwing off a 404 exception in Laravel5?

Question

So I am working with a Laravel 5 installation and like a good programmer I am trying to get the validation logic out of my controller using the new Form Requests feature in Laravel.

So I went ahead and created a form request called CreateTenantRequest like so:

php artisan make:request CreateTenantRequest

By default it returns a

false

in the

authorize

method and it works correctly. If I fire a request, it says forbidden. But then I updated the rules and I set the

authorize

method to

true

and now when I fire the same request from Postman, it says:

NotFoundHttpException in RouteCollection.php line 161:

Which is ridiculous because when I change it to false, it returns forbidden fine?

What am I missing or doing wrong?

And although this wouldn't matter I guess but my rules array is as follows:

return [

    // Tenant details

    'name' => 'required|max:255',

    'username' => 'required|max:255|unique:tenant',

    // Tenant Admin details

    'first_name' => 'required',

    'last_name' => 'required',

    'email' => 'required|email|max:255',

    'password' => 'required|confirmed|min:6',

];

Routes file:

<?php



Route::group(['prefix' => 'api'], function(){

    Route::post('authenticate', 'Auth\AuthController@authenticate');



    // SuperAdmin Group

    Route::group(['namespace' => 'Archive', 'middleware' => 'superadmin'], function(){

        Route::resource('tenants', 'TenantController');

        Route::get('tenants/{id}/users', 'TenantController@showUsersForTenant');

    });



    // Tenant Group

    Route::group(['namespace' => 'Tenant'], function(){

        Route::resource('roles', 'RoleController');

        Route::resource('users', 'UserController');

    });



    // Remove before production

    // Only for testing purposes

    Route::get('test', function(){

        // return JWTAuth::parseToken()->getPayload()->get('username');

    });

});

Answer 1

So after a bid discussion with shock_gone_wild, I realized that the request was not ajax and hence laravel was rerouting to the a url with the errors in session.

I was testing the API with Postman REST client and by default it sends basic HTTP requests but when a header is added like so:

X-Requested-With:XMLHttpRequest

It makes the request Ajax and then laravel checks to see if it is indeed ajax, so instead of routing to a url, it gave back the validation errors in JSON.

So anytime if anyone is creating a decoupled web service and trying to test it using Postman, do it with the header so that you can simulate actual ajax requests at your application.

Why is my create form request throwing off a 404 exception in Laravel5?

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