laravel 5 form request validation issue

Question

in my laravel 5.1 app, I've got a Book model with a required "Title" field and several others non-required fields. To validate Book create/update, I use form request validation like this:

class StoreBookRequest extends Request
{

    public function authorize()
    {
        return true;
    }

    public function rules()
    {
        return [
            'title' => 'required',
            'year' => 'numeric',
            'pages' => 'numeric',
        ];
    }
} 

I then type-hint the request on the controller action and everytning works fine. Now I need to create a new controller action that updates only one of the non-required fields. To do so, I created another request like this:

class StoreReviewRequest extends Request
{
    public function authorize()
    {
        return true;
    }

    public function rules()
    {
        return [
            'vote' => 'numeric',
        ];
    }
}

and I type-hint the request in the controller action:

public function updateReview(StoreReviewRequest $request, Book $book)
{
    $input = array_except(Input::all(), '_method');
    $book->update($input);
    Session::flash('message', 'Review updated');

    return redirect('/book');
}

The problem is that when I use the new controller action, the update form does not pass validation, but complains about missing "Title" field, even tough I'm not decalring that field as required in my StoreReviewRequest class. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

Answer 1

As @Needpoule suggested, I was using the wrong action in my form.