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cr001
cr001

Reputation: 673

Laravel routing: is there a syntax to pass a fixed parameter to the handler function?

I am using Laravel 8 and currently I have the following route:

Route::match(['get'], '/{action}', '\App\Http\MyController@handleRequest');

In the MyController class I have a handlerRequest function which takes two parameters

public function handleRequest(Request $request, string $action) 
{
    // Generic request handling code for every action, both GET and POST
    // This code is fairly long and I don't want it to be duplicated
}

This all works well until I want to add another route for a specific request:

Route::match(['post'], '/message-sent', '\App\Http\MyController@handleRequest');

In this case only the POST method is allowed on the specific action message-sent, however it does not work using the above configuration as Laravel does not pass "message-sent" as $action to the handleRequest function.

The error message is

Too few arguments to function App\Http\MyController::handleRequest(), 1 passed in /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php on line 48 and exactly 2 expected

What I want is the action "message-sent" is passed into the generic handler function as parameter but at the same time achieving the "special post-only setting" for this specific route.

I tried

Route::match(['post'], '/{message-sent}', '\App\Http\MyController@handleRequest');

as well without success.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 285

Answers (1)

cr001
cr001

Reputation: 673

After searching through the Laravel source code, I think I found the solution

Route::match(['post'], '/message-sent', '\App\Http\MyController@handleRequest')->defaults('action', 'message-sent');

would achieve the effect of sending a fixed parameter $action="message-sent" to the handler function.

Upvotes: 2

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