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When you throw an exception in Symfony - even an HttpException - it returns an HTML
page. Notice the Content-Type header here of text/html. And in reality, this is returning
a full, giant HTML exception page - my test helpers are just summarizing things.
Why is that? Why does Symfony default to the idea that if something goes wrong, it should return HTML?
Here's the answer: for every single request, Symfony has what's called a "request format",
and it defaults to html. But there are a number of different ways to say "Hey Symfony,
the user wants json, so if something goes wrong, give them that".
The easiest way to set the request format is in your routing. Open up app/config/routing.yml:
| ... lines 1 - 4 | |
| app_api: | |
| resource: "@AppBundle/Controller/Api" | |
| type: annotation |
When we import the routes from our API controllers, we want all of them to have
a json request format. To do that, add a defaults key. Below that, set a magic
key called _format to json:
| ... lines 1 - 4 | |
| app_api: | |
| resource: "@AppBundle/Controller/Api" | |
| type: annotation | |
| defaults: | |
| _format: json |
For us, this is optional, because in a minute, we're going to completely take control of exceptions for our API. But with just this, re-run the tests:
./bin/phpunit -c app --filter testInvalidJson
Yes! Now we get a Content-Type header of application/json and because we're in
the dev environment, it returns the full stack trace as JSON.
This is cool. But the JSON structure still won't be right. So let's take full control
using our ApiProblemException.
Hey Bartlomeij !
There are 2 ways to do this:
1) Assuming you're using annotation routes, in your config/packages/routes/annotations.yaml file, you can do what we did in this video:
controllers:
resource: ../../src/Controller/
type: annotation
defaults:
_format: json
2) The above approach will make all annotation routes use JSON by default. But, if a user goes to a 404 page that doesn't match any route, they would still have an HTML. To fix that, you would register a listener on the kernel.request event (also called the RequestEvent), get the request, and call $request->setRequestFormat('json').
Let me know if that helps!
Cheers!
Just thinking ahead, but I hope I can just override a method in ApiProblemException that returns a customized Response :)
Hey Johan!
Unfortunately, there's nothing built in for that, but I like your thinking :). Of course, we have the HttpException class (really, the HttpExceptionInterface) and its sub-classes, but the default ExceptionListener in Symfony (which handles the response during an exception... by default), only uses this interface to get the status code and any headers you might want set. It still *always* renders this internal controller that always returns HTML. Well, as we learned here, it can also return JSON, but it's this more-or-less hardcoded, generic JSON page - you don't have a lot of control.
So, good thinking... but it doesn't work that way :).
Cheers!
// composer.json
{
"require": {
"php": ">=5.3.3",
"symfony/symfony": "2.6.*", // v2.6.11
"doctrine/orm": "~2.2,>=2.2.3,<2.5", // v2.4.7
"doctrine/dbal": "<2.5", // v2.4.4
"doctrine/doctrine-bundle": "~1.2", // v1.4.0
"twig/extensions": "~1.0", // v1.2.0
"symfony/assetic-bundle": "~2.3", // v2.6.1
"symfony/swiftmailer-bundle": "~2.3", // v2.3.8
"symfony/monolog-bundle": "~2.4", // v2.7.1
"sensio/distribution-bundle": "~3.0,>=3.0.12", // v3.0.21
"sensio/framework-extra-bundle": "~3.0,>=3.0.2", // v3.0.7
"incenteev/composer-parameter-handler": "~2.0", // v2.1.0
"hautelook/alice-bundle": "0.2.*", // 0.2
"jms/serializer-bundle": "0.13.*" // 0.13.0
},
"require-dev": {
"sensio/generator-bundle": "~2.3", // v2.5.3
"behat/behat": "~3.0", // v3.0.15
"behat/mink-extension": "~2.0.1", // v2.0.1
"behat/mink-goutte-driver": "~1.1.0", // v1.1.0
"behat/mink-selenium2-driver": "~1.2.0", // v1.2.0
"phpunit/phpunit": "~4.6.0" // 4.6.4
}
}
Hey Guys!
Any ideas how to set default json format at Symfony 5? :)
Thanks!