Return error response if a body params is not mentionned in the validator

Question

I'm using the Laravel Validator to test my incoming request. So to be sure that the request contains an username and an email, I write something like that:

$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
    'username'  => 'required',
    'email'     => 'required|email'
]);

if ($validator->fails()) {
    return response()->json('error', 400);
};

But if in my request I have an additionnal params like name, the validator will not consider it as an error and will not fail.

Have you an idea how I can make my validator more strict so that the request body match exactly?

Answer 1

Technically it's not a validation fail in the Validator. But you could check if there are extra (unexpected) fields and send a JSON response based on that if you wanted.

Something like this maybe?

$validationRules = [
    'username'  => 'required',
    'email'     => 'required|email'
];

$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), $validationRules);

// Check if there are extra (unexpected) fields and fail in that case
$extraFields = $request->except(array_keys($validationRules));
if (count($extraFields) > 0) {
    return response()->json('error because there are extra fields', 400);
}

if ($validator->fails()) {
    return response()->json('error', 400);
}

return response()->json('ok', 200);

I hope it can help you.