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Asked: 2026-06-06T11:13:33+00:00

I’m writing an API in Cake2.1.3 using the REST instructions in the docs. Having

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I’m writing an API in Cake2.1.3 using the REST instructions in the docs. Having previously written one in Cake1.3, I would use the now-deprecated cakeError class to issue a response with an HTTP code in the format it was requested in. For example, if I requested http://example.com/widgets/view/invalid-code.json, cakeError would dispatch a 400 error code (and message) in the JSON format. Cake 2.x uses exceptions to handle this. According to the docs: 

throw new BadRequestException()

issues a 400 HTTP code with a “Bad Request” message, but it only seems to do so in the HTML format. Can it automatically respond in the format it was requested in?

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  1. Editorial Team

    From my knowledge there’s no way to do this automatically, but you could write your own exception handler that checks the request and outputs the appropriate content type.

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