Hi guys,

I'm developping an API and because I have (mostly) the same functionality I've created an abstract class to be extended on my controllers.

My abstract class looks like: http://laravel.io/bin/23Bzj

Where in the controller I would construct with a model and response (will probably move the response to ApiController constructor later).

class EventController extends ApiController
{

  public function __construct(Event $model, ResponseRepository $response)
  {
     $this->model = $model;
     $this->response = $response;
  }
}

But the question is: how will I be able to use the specific Request class in my ApiController to be used the in the methods for validation/what is the best practice.

I can use a normal Request class but then I won't have any validation before the methods.

When I'm in my EventController I will be able to use UpdateEventRequest and CreateEventRequest and so on.