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user6067756

Reputation:

How to provide choices for Laravel route parameter

What I'm trying to accomplish is, I have a route which accepts a parameter named type and It accepts any value now. But I want to provide choices to accept value from, If matches the route works, otherwise It throws Not found error.

Choices are:

  1. retweet
  2. favorite
  3. tweet

Code:

Route::get('/activity/{type}/status','ActivitiesController@status');

ActivitiesController.php

class ActivitiesController extends Controller
{
    public function status($type, Request $request)
    {
        return $request->all();
    }
}

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1575

Answers (2)

Filip Koblański
Filip Koblański

Reputation: 9998

You can use regular expression constraints like:

Route::get('/activity/{type}/status','ActivitiesController@status')
    ->where('type', '(retweet|favorite|tweet)');

Upvotes: 7

Alexey Mezenin
Alexey Mezenin

Reputation: 163858

This will check the $type. If it's not appropriate one, it will redirect to 404 error page:

public function status($type, Request $request)
{
    if ($type != 'retweet' && $type != 'favorite' && $type != 'tweet') {
        abort(404);
    }

    return $request->all();
}

Alternative:

Route::get('/activity/{type}/status', function()
{
    if ($type == 'retweet' || $type == 'favorite' || $type == 'tweet') {
        $app = app();
        $controller = $app->make('ActivitiesController');
        $controller->callAction($app, $app['router'], 'status', $parameters = array());
    }
});

Alternative 2:

Only if you have just 3 types and you will not add any in future. This is stupid one, but more readable and easier to maintain:

Route::get('/activity/retweet/status','ActivitiesController@status');
Route::get('/activity/favorite/status','ActivitiesController@status');
Route::get('/activity/tweet/status','ActivitiesController@status');

Also, you could use middleware. The choice is yours. )

Upvotes: 1

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