Laravel Response::json not returning JSON properly? - json

Question

Routes registered in app/routes.php
Route::resource('users', 'UsersController',
array('except' => array('new', 'update')));
Route::post('users/authenticate', array('as' => 'authenticate', 'uses' => 'UsersController#authenticate'));
Route::get('users/is_authenticated', array('as' => 'authenticated', 'uses' => 'UsersController#is_authenticated'));
The method is_authenticated is not returning JSON, but when I put the Response::json() in the index method it returns the JSON schema.
Here is my is_authenticated method:
public function is_authenticated()
{
return Response::json(['authenticated' => Auth::check()]);
}
What's going wrong here? I ran php artisan routes and it returns this for the route:
GET|HEAD api/users/is_authenticated | authenticated | UsersController#is_authenticated
I don't get a 404 Not Found when visiting the page, but there is no content. What's the problem?
Edit: routes are prefixed with api

Answer 1

The problem is that your first route is activated when calling users/is_authenticated. The order of the routes is important in Laravel, as the first matching route is executed. You can just change the order of your routes to make the route users/is_authenticated available, like so:
Route::post('users/authenticate', array('as' => 'authenticate', 'uses' => 'UsersController#authenticate'));
Route::get('users/is_authenticated', array('as' => 'authenticated', 'uses' => 'UsersController#is_authenticated'));
Route::resource('users', 'UsersController', array('except' => array('new', 'update')));