Laravel Custom Exception is giving me Undefined property::$headers - laravel

Question

I am working on an exception right now in laravel giving a weird behavior that I have not seen before and can't seem to find much information about. I am getting this error message Undefined property: App\Exceptions\UserNotApproved::$headers. Not sure whats going.
<?php
namespace App\Exceptions;
use Exception;
class UserNotApproved extends Exception
{
/**
* Report or log an exception.
*
* This is a great spot to send exceptions to Sentry, Bugsnag, etc.
*
* #param \Exception $exception
* #return void
*/
public function report(Exception $exception)
{
parent::report($exception);
}
/**
* Render the exception into an HTTP response.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request
* #return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
public function render($request)
{
return response()->view('errors.not_approved',['exception'=>$this],403);
}
}
/var/www/epg_intranet/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php
$response->headers->setCookie at line 159
<?php
namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use App\Exceptions\UserNotApproved;
use App\User;
use Closure;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;
class VerifyUserApproval
{
/**
* Handle an incoming request.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param \Closure $next
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
if (Auth::check() && Auth::user()->user_type == null){
return new UserNotApproved();
}
return $next($request);
}
}
I am calling this in a middleware. W0uld that have anything to due with the error?

Answer 1

public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
if (Auth::check() && Auth::user()->user_type == null){
return new UserNotApproved();
}
return $next($request);
}
A middleware is supposed to take in a response, look at it and do something, and then return a response so that the next middleware can do it's job as well. Returning a UserNotApproved class is throwing this error since the next middleware is not receiving a request object.
You could do something like this:
public function handle($request, Closure $next) {
if (Auth::check() && Auth::user()->user_type == null) {
abort(400, 'User not approved.');
}
return $next($request);
}
You may be able to do this as well
public function handle($request, Closure $next) {
if (Auth::check() && Auth::user()->user_type == null) {
throw new UserNotApproved();
}
return $next($request);
}