Redirect to route not redirecting in laravel - php

Question

I've been using Laravel-5.8.35. I was invoking a GET request through a form. On my route, I redirected the form action to the same controller where the form was submitted but redirected through a different route, as,
$router->get('/merchant/sd-refund', 'Reports\ReportController#refundSecurityDeposit');
And, in my refundSecurityDeposit method, I called my SohojSdRefundService service,
public function refundSecurityDeposit(Request $request)
{
// $userId, $reason, $sdAmount was fetched from the $request instance
$this->execRefundRequest($userId, $reason, $sdAmount);
}
public function execRefundRequest($userId, $reason, $sdAmount)
{
// here the API service request data was handled,
// and stored in $data instance
return SohojSdRefundService::callSdRefundApi($data);
}
While my SohojSdRefundService service was done handling, I wanted to redirect the route to another route, as,
class SohojSdRefundService
{
public function __construct()
{
}
public static function callSdRefundApi($requestData)
{
// call to other methods inside the class to handle the API response,
// and then return to the same route which isn't working
return redirect('/admin/merchant/list');
}
}
Respectively, instead of redirecting to that route, the page happens to be still on the /merchant/sd-refund?... where the form was submitted initially. I redirected another service like this, which is working fine though. Could anyone suggest what I could be implementing wrong here? TIA.

Answer 1

You need to return a result in refundSecurityDeposit fucntion
public function refundSecurityDeposit(Request $request)
{
return $this->execRefundRequest($userId, $reason, $sdAmount);
}