I recommend taking a look at https://github.com/friendsofcake/crud, if not for the code (but why not =) ) for an example of how to do what you ask e.g. http://friendsofcake.com/crud/examples/blog.html#validation_errors
curl -I -X POST http://your-site-domain.com/posts/add.json \ > -d title="My new JSON API blog post" > > HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request > Server: nginx/1.4.1 > Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:25:12 GMT > Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Length: 69 > Connection: keep-alive > Set-Cookie: CAKEPHP=vevclsl2o6r7h4v7uon9j5tkd1; expires=Sun, 16-Jun-2013 > 16:25:12 GMT; path=/; HttpOnly > > { > "success": false, > "data": { > "body": ["This field cannot be left blank"] > } > } > > AD On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 05:06:00 UTC+1, OJ Tibi - @ojtibi wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I was wondering if there was a way to let the client app know which fields > it submitted have validation errors. (As you can see, I placed "Form" > between parentheses because there isn't really an HTML form in a REST API > request.) While the Cookbook recommends to use the built-in Exception > classes to respond to errors in REST requests, there is no recommended way > to include Model::validationErrors in the response. > > Right now, I'm inclined to create my own subclass of HttpException, but > after reading the core files, it looks like I might also need to create a > custom ErrorHandler and ExceptionRenderer class, if I understand correctly. > Essentially, I just want to add a 'validation_errors' key in the > '_serialize' array exported by ExceptionRenderer. > > The question is, will I be overdoing it if I did what I outlined above, > *or* should I just pass a implode()'d Model::validationErrors as a $message > to BadRequestException/InternalErrorException? Also note that > Model::validationErrors is a multi-level array with named keys. > > Cheers, > OJ > -- Like Us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/CakePHP Find us on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakePHP --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
