Hi Folks, have you encountered an ugly Exception when making a post, get, put, delete to external API when an error like 500 or 404 occurs. Today you are at the right place, after reading this you will be able to show a nice message to your users in case of any of those errors occurs

When making a request to external API using guzzle to solve this problem you will need to catch the Exception by following the steps below.

1. Prepare your request using Guzzle, I believe you know or have set it up already
2. Make a post or get request to your external API

    public function create(Request $request) {
    $input = $request->all();
    try {
        $client = new Client();
        $headers = ['API-Key' => env('API_KEY')];
        $url = 'api/post/create';
        $response = $client->request('POST', $url, ['headers' => $headers, 'query' => $input]);
        $res = json_decode($response->getBody());
//here will catch error to aviod ugly message to users  
    } catch (\GuzzleHttp\Exception\RequestException $res) {
        if ($res->hasResponse()) {
            $response = $res->getResponse();
            if ($response->getStatusCode() == 500) {
                abort(500);
            } if ($response->getStatusCode() == 404) {
                abort(404);
            }
        }
    }
}

Congrats , you have saved your users from seeing that ugly message . Share and comment