Lumen generic controller route fails, but worked in Laravel

posted 10 years ago

Hi everyone, I am refactoring my API project to Lumen. In 4.2 I had this in routes.php

Route::controller('foo', 'fooController');

This worked out of the box, routing all uri strings to their respected method. In Lumen, the "Route" class is not recognized, even if I add "use App;" at the top. So I changed it like this (it's what NetBeans typehints)

Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route::controller('foo', 'fooController');

Although the class now resolves, it does not work, the error I get is: Class router does not exist

Has this cool Laravel routing feature been removed? Please note I have not used L5, don't know if it works there

Regards

Last updated 3 years ago.

terreporter

replied 10 years ago

Solution

I don't think the Route::controller works with Lumen.

You could just make the rest routes yourself,

In you routes.php file

 $app->get('foo', 'fooController@index');
 $app->get('foo/{id}', 'fooController@show');
 $app->post('foo', 'fooController@store');
 $app->put('foo/{id}', 'fooController@update');
 $app->delete('foo/{id}', 'fooController@destroy');

// the controllers will need a full class path

It wouldn't take much to make this a small function if you have multiple routes. The you could do something like,

makeControllerRoute('/foo', 'App\Http\Controllers\fooController');

And since you say works "out of the box".. I'm going to add in a reminder about if you want to use the facades you will need to enable them in the app.php file along with the .env load config support.

Dotenv::load(__DIR__.'/../');

$app->withFacades();
 
$app->withEloquent();

Hope that helps.

Last updated 10 years ago.

jimgwhit

replied 10 years ago

http://lumen.laravel.com/docs/controllers, has examples, it is a little different.
$app->get('user/{id}', 'App\Http\Controllers\UserController@showProfile');

Last updated 10 years ago.

byroredux

replied 10 years ago

I've come to terms that it does not work like in Laravel, so I specified all my routes like you said.

Thanks for you help

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