Larvel api class exception handling

I have a Laravel 4.2 application with the following route:

Route::group(['prefix' => 'api/v1'], function()
{
    Route::resource('service_logs', 'ServiceLogsController', [
        'only' => ['index', 'store', 'show']
    ]);
});

      

        
        
        
      

    

The controller ServiceLogsController

extends from ApiController

which looks something like this:

class ApiController extends \BaseController {

    protected $statusCode = 200;

    public function getStatusCode()
    {
        return $this->statusCode;
    }

    public function setStatusCode($statusCode)
    {
        $this->statusCode = $statusCode;

        return $this;
    }

    public function respondInternalError($message = 'Internal Error!')
    {
        return $this->setStatusCode(500)->respondWithError($message);
    }

    public function respondWithError($message)
    {
        return Response::json([
            'error' => [
                'message' => $message,
                'status_code' => $this->getStatusCode()
            ]
        ], $this->getStatusCode());
    }

    // ...

}

      

        
        
        
      

    

What I would like to do, when an un-catch exception occurs, I want to call a method respondInternalError()

on mine ApiController

, so that the API consumer has a consistent response, not nothing or an html whoops

error.

For this, I tried to add the following code to my app/start/global.php

App::error(function(Exception $exception, $code)
{
    Log::error($exception);

    if (Request::is('api/*'))
    {
        App::make('ApiController')->respondInternalError('Uncaught api exception error occurred - ' . $exception->getMessage());
    }
});

      

        
        
        
      

    

and to test it I tried to make a POST request to the following url: / api / v1 / service_logs / 123.

it won't work because this url is GET, so Laravel is throwing the correct one method not allowed exception

. However, he misses.

Any idea how to implement a catch all exception handler based on the controller class?

Update Slightly improved working "global" api exception handler

App::error(function(Exception $exception, $code)
{
    Log::error($exception);

    if (Request::is('api/*'))
    {
        $errorName = Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response::$statusTexts[$code];

        return App::make('ApiController')
            ->setStatusCode($code)
            ->respondWithError($errorName . ' error has occurred.');
    }
});

      

        
        
        
      

    

On error, you get this now (testing is done in Chrome + Postman):