---
title: "Error handling — Google Places for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "One PlacesException with typed checks for rate limits, denied keys, invalid requests and unreachable APIs — the key is redacted from every message."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/google-places-for-laravel/error-handling
language: en
---

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# Error handling

Failures throw RoundlyConsulting\\GooglePlaces\\Exceptions\\PlacesException, with typed accessors so you can branch on what went wrong:

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\GooglePlaces\Exceptions\PlacesException;
use RoundlyConsulting\GooglePlaces\Facades\GooglePlaces;

try {
    $predictions = GooglePlaces::autocomplete('Coffee');
} catch (PlacesException $e) {
    if ($e->isRateLimited())      { /* back off */ }
    elseif ($e->isDenied())       { /* check key / billing / enabled APIs */ }
    elseif ($e->isInvalidRequest()) { /* fix the request */ }
    elseif ($e->isUnreachable())  { /* timeout, DNS failure, refused connection */ }

    report($e); // $e->googleStatus(), $e->googleReason(), $e->googleErrorMessage()
}
```

## The key stays out of messages

The API key never appears in an exception message, an event or a cache key. Every message is redacted — Google’s error text and a transport failure’s too, which ends in the request URL where the Geocoding API carries its key=. The configured key is masked to its last four characters wherever it appears, and so is the value of any key=, token= or signature= query parameter; a value of eight characters or fewer is starred out completely. $e->response is the raw HTTP response, request URL included — don’t serialize it into reports.

## Status checks

The checks normalise the error shapes of all three Google APIs, and isUnreachable() separates a network failure from an answer:

| Check | Google statuses |
| --- | --- |
| `isRateLimited()` | RESOURCE\_EXHAUSTED, OVER\_QUERY\_LIMIT — and always for RateLimitExceededException |
| `isDenied()` | PERMISSION\_DENIED, UNAUTHENTICATED, REQUEST\_DENIED, OVER\_DAILY\_LIMIT — or a key/project googleReason such as API\_KEY\_INVALID, whatever the status |
| `isInvalidRequest()` | INVALID\_ARGUMENT, INVALID\_REQUEST — and not denied |
| `isUnreachable()` | No Google status — Google could not be reached at all (timeout, DNS failure, refused connection) |

## Inspecting the failure

```php
catch (PlacesException $e) {
    $e->getCode();              // HTTP status of the failed response (0 for local errors)
    $e->googleStatus();         // e.g. "PERMISSION_DENIED", "OVER_QUERY_LIMIT"
    $e->googleReason();         // e.g. "API_KEY_INVALID" — null for the Geocoding API
    $e->googleErrorMessage();   // Google's own error message, if any
    $e->isUnreachable();        // true for a timeout, DNS failure or refused connection
    $e->response;               // ?Illuminate\Http\Client\Response — raw, request URL included
}
```

## When it is thrown

| Factory | Thrown when |
| --- | --- |
| `fromResponse()` | Google returned a non-success response. Carries the HTTP status, Google status and message. |
| `connectionFailed()` | Google could not be reached after the configured retries — isUnreachable() is true. |
| `missingApiKey()` | No API key is configured — thrown before any HTTP request. |
| `tooManyPrimaryTypes()` | An AutocompleteQuery with more than 5 primary types. |
| `tooManyRegionCodes()` | An AutocompleteQuery with more than 15 region codes. |
| `invalidRadius()` | A NearbySearchQuery radius outside 0–50000 m. |
| `sessionFinished()` | A billing session reused after its details() call. |
| `routeNotFound()` | distance() hit a destination with no available route. |
| `RateLimitExceededException::for()` | A rate-limited surface would wait longer than its max\_wait. |

## Timeouts and retries

Every call is bounded by http.timeout and http.connect\_timeout. Connection failures (timeouts, DNS) are retried http.retries times with http.retry\_delay between attempts; Google business errors are never retried — they surface immediately as a PlacesException. Both timeouts are whole seconds of at least 1: 0 (no timeout) or junk such as five throws InvalidConfigurationException instead of leaving a request unbounded.

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