Laravel form validator error

Question

I want to validate the input fields before storing the data in database so i went through the laravel docs and followed these

1. php artisan make:request StoreLessons

2. in StoreLessons

   public function rules()
       {
           return [
               'title' => 'required|unique:lesson',
               'body' => 'required',
           ];
       }
   

3. in my controller

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Response;
use App\lesson;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Acme\Transformers\LessonTransformer;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input;
use App\Http\Requests\StoreLessons;

class LessonsController extends ApiController 
{

    protected $lessonTransformer;

    function __construct(LessonTransformer $lessonTransformer) 
    {
        $this->lessonTransformer = $lessonTransformer;
    }

    //fetch all and pass a metadata 'data' 
    public function index() 
    {
        $lessons = Lesson::all();

        return $this->respond([
            'data' => $this->lessonTransformer->transformCollection($lessons->all())
        ]);
    }

    //add a new lesson to lessons table
    public function store(StoreLessons $request) 
    {
        Lesson::create($request->all());

        //Lesson::create(input::all());

        return $this->respondCreated('Lesson created successfully');
    }


}

now i'm getting this error

QueryException in Connection.php line 770:
SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'laravel_api.lesson' doesn't exist (SQL: select count(*) as aggregate from `lesson` where `title` = the)

i don't know why it's looking for lesson table i have a lessons table

but the store() function works with default validation

//this works fine but i wan to do the validation 
    public function store() 
    {
        if (! input::get('title') or ! input::get('body')) {
            return $this->respondBadRequest();
        }

        Lesson::create(input::all());

        return $this->respondCreated('Lesson created successfully');
    }

Thank You

Answer 1

unique:table,column,except,idColumn

The unique syntax goes as above and the first parameter passed is the table name.

public function rules() { 
    return [ 'title' => 'required|unique:lesson', 'body' => 'required', ];
}

The unique rule here looks for a table lesson. Try changing that to lessons