Laravel Forwarding Route To Another Route File

Question

I'm building enterprise modular Laravel web application but I'm having a small problem.

I would like to have it so that if someone goes to the /api/*/ route (/api/ is a route group) that it will go to an InputController. the first variable next to /api/ will be the module name that the api is requesting info from. So lets say for example: /api/phonefinder/find

In this case, when someone hit's this route, it will go to InputController, verifiy if the module 'phonefinder' exists, then sends anything after the /api/phonefinder to the correct routes file in that module's folder (In this case the '/find' Route..)

So:

/api/phonefinder/find - Go to input controller and verify if phonefinder module exists (Always go to InputController even if its another module instead of phonefinder)

/find - Then call the /find route inside folder Modules/phonefinder/routes.php

Any idea's on how to achieve this?

Answer 1

Middlewares are designed for this purpose. You can create a middleware by typing

php artisan make:middleware MiddlewareName

It will create a middleware named 'MiddlewareName' under namespace App\Http\Middleware; path.

In this middleware, write your controls in the handle function. It should return $next($request); Dont change this part.

In your Http\Kernel.php file, go to $routeMiddleware variable and add this line:

'middleware_name' => \App\Http\Middleware\MiddlewareName::class,

And finally, go to your web.php file and set the middleware. An example can be given as:

Route::middleware(['middleware_name'])->group(function () {
    Route::prefix('api')->group(function () {
        Route::get('/phonefinder', 'SomeController@someMethod');
    });
});

Whenever you call api/phonefinder endpoint, it will go to the Middleware first.