How do I get ONLY the validated data from a laravel FormRequest?

OK... After I spent the time to type this question out, I figured I'd check the laravel "API" documentation: https://laravel.com/api/5.5/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/FormRequest.html

Looks like I can use $request->validated(). Wish they would say this in the Validation documentation. It makes my controller actions look pretty slick:

public function store(PlanRequest $request)
{
    return response()->json(['plan' => Plan::create($request->validated())]);
}

$request->validated() will return only the validated data.

Example:

public function store(Request $request)
{
    $request->validate([
        'title' => 'required|unique:posts|max:255',
        'body' => 'required',
    ]);

    $validatedData = $request->validated();

}

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Alternate Solution:

$request->validate([rules...]) returns the only validated data if the validation passes.

Example:

public function store(Request $request)
{
   
    $validatedData = $request->validate([
        'title' => 'required|unique:posts|max:255',
        'body' => 'required',
    ]);

}