How to change Mojolicious Lite default error not found to a custom json response

Question

I'm creating a json web service using Mojolicious Lite.

By default Mojolicious returns a HTML response for a server error or not found error.

Is there a way to overwrite this to a custom JSON response?

Answer 1

It's been a minute, but in Mojo 9 in a full app I've just been returning JSON and returning the status:

$c->render( json => $json, status => 404 );

But, I also have a catch-all route at the end of my setup:

$self->routes->any('/*')->to( ... );

Answer 2

The Rendering guide discusses how to customize these responses.