Hello !

I want to use a custom UrlGenerator implementation in my application. How it is possible ?

I tried different methods but none worked without updating the core... Using the container seems the better idea but the name of the UrlGenerator class is hardcoded in the RoutinServiceProvider.

For me the right way is a container binding like :

$this->app->bind('Illuminate\Contracts\Routing\UrlGenerator', 'App\Library\Routing\UrlGenerator');

But for this method I need to change the registerUrlGenerator method to :

protected function registerUrlGenerator()
{
    $this->app['url'] = $this->app->share(function ($app) {
        $routes = $app['router']->getRoutes();

        // The URL generator needs the route collection that exists on the router.
        // Keep in mind this is an object, so we're passing by references here
        // and all the registered routes will be available to the generator.
        $app->instance('routes', $routes);

        $url = $app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Routing\UrlGenerator', [$routes, $app->rebinding(
                'request', $this->requestRebinder()
            )
        ]);

        $url->setSessionResolver(function () {
            return $this->app['session'];
        });

        // If the route collection is "rebound", for example, when the routes stay
        // cached for the application, we will need to rebind the routes on the
        // URL generator instance so it has the latest version of the routes.
        $app->rebinding('routes', function ($app, $routes) {
            $app['url']->setRoutes($routes);
        });

        return $url;
    });
}

The only solution that I found without hacking the framework is to duplicate the whole 'url' service binding function. I think it's a lot of duplication (the callback contains all the instantiation logic) which is not really useful...

Thanks for your help !