Jump Gate

Class Based Routing

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• Introduction
• RouteServiceProvider
• Usage

Introduction

Class based routing is an idea to use proper PHP classes for route groups. Each class used in this way behaves like a route group. This is an alternative to using laravel’s default route files. You are always welcome to continue using those though.

RouteServiceProvider

You will first need to make sure your RouteServiceProvider can understand these classes. In the jumpgate/jumpgate package this is done for you. To set it up manually, you would need something like the RouteServiceProvider from the JumpGate package.

This class does a lot, so lets break it down.

• The boot() method is where we call to load the class route directories.
• load() loops through each directory in the config/route.php paths array and finds any route classes you have in those directories. It then loops through each and assigns the routes within as a route group.
• convertProviderToRoutes() is where we actually use the data in the class route to make an actual Laravel route. We also assign any patterns here.

Usage

So how does this provider help us? Let’s first look at an example route class.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Routes;

use JumpGate\Core\Contracts\Routes;
use JumpGate\Core\Http\Routes\BaseRoute;
use Illuminate\Routing\Router;

class Home extends BaseRoute implements Routes
{
    public $namespace = 'App\Http\Controllers';

    public $middleware = ['web'];

    public function routes(Router $router)
    {
        $router->get('/')
               ->name('home')
               ->uses('HomeController@index')
               ->middleware('active:home');
        
        $router->get('dashboard')
               ->name('dashboard')
               ->uses('HomeController@dashboard')
               ->middleware('active:home');
    }
}

This is a very basic example of a route class. It must implement Routes and a lot of helpers are provided for you in JumpGate\Core\Http\Routes\BaseRoute. Simply extend it if you want to.

There are a lot of properties to help define your route.

• The $namespace property is used to set the namespace for the route group as a whole. The $prefix would be something that should proceed every uri. An example is below. This would mean every route in this class would be at http://<site>.com/dashboard/<route>.

public $prefix = 'dashboard';

• The $context property is a setting on the route that lets you use a predefined context. Two default contexts are added by the BaseRoute class. They are default and admin. Default returns a / and admin returns /admin. You can add any contexts you want at any time with the setContext() method.
• The $middleware property is an array of middleware the group will use.
• $patterns will set the patterns as mentioned earlier.
• Setting $role will force the user to have the specified role to access the route.
• Setting the $permissions array will require the user to have one of the permissions specified to access.

Lastly is the routes() method. This is where you define all the routes this group will use. These can look like normal routes using the facade or you can use the new laravel 5.3+ fluent style methods.

{warning} Once you have added this class it should begin working on the next reload. If not, look in config/routes.php and make sure the location of your route file is defined.

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