Framework: JSON API and "Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json" / "Accept: application/vnd.api+json"

[Wendtly]

The new JSON API spec (http://jsonapi.org/format/) specifies that "Clients MUST send all JSON API data in request document with the header Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json..." and "Servers MUST send all JSON API data in response documents with the header Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json"...

However, currently in Illuminate/Http/Request.php, the isJson() method looks for "/json", and several other methods look for "application/json" in these headers. Thus, content served via the JSON API spec won't be interpretted as JSON currently via Laravel/Lumen.

[thekonz]

You could overwrite the isJson() in your app/Http/Requests/Request.php like this:

public function isJson()
{
    return \Illuminate\Support\Str::contains($this->header('CONTENT_TYPE'), ['/json', '+json']);
}

[GrahamCampbell]

Accept: application/vnd.api+json should return false for accepts json, because it doesn't...

You can't return any kind of json response, it specifically must be application/vnd.api+json