Added catch for validation exception specifically

Signed-off-by: snipe <snipe@snipe.net>

app/Exceptions/Handler.php

@@ -121,7 +121,13 @@ class Handler extends ExceptionHandler
 
             // This handles API validation exceptions that happen at the Form Request level, so they
             // never even get to the controller where we normally  nicely format JSON responses
-            return response()->json(Helper::formatStandardApiResponse('error', null,  $e->errors()), 200);
+            if ($e instanceof ValidationException) {
+                $response = $this->invalidJson($request, $e);
+                return response()->json(Helper::formatStandardApiResponse('error', null,  $e->errors()), 200);
+            }
+
+            return response()->json(Helper::formatStandardApiResponse('error', null,  'Undefined exception'), 200);
+
 
 
         }

app/Http/Transformers/DatatablesTransformer.php

@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ namespace App\Http\Transformers;
 
 class DatatablesTransformer
 {
+
+    /**
+    * Transform data for bootstrap tables and API responses for lists of things
+    **/
     public function transformDatatables($objects, $total = null)
     {
         (isset($total)) ? $objects_array['total'] = $total : $objects_array['total'] = count($objects);
@@ -11,4 +15,15 @@ class DatatablesTransformer
 
         return $objects_array;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Transform data for returning the status of items within a bulk action
+     **/
+    public function transformBulkResponseWithStatusAndObjects($objects, $total)
+    {
+        (isset($total)) ? $objects_array['total'] = $total : $objects_array['total'] = count($objects);
+        $objects_array['rows'] = $objects;
+
+        return $objects_array;
+    }
 }