Laravel 7 - Use Middleware and except in route file - php

Question

I use Laravel 7 for an API project, I have created a JWT Middleware, and I want to apply it to all my routes, except 2 of them.
For now I have in my routes/api.php :
Route::prefix('v1')->group(function () {
Route::get('ping', 'Api\Ping\PingController#ping');
// auth routes
Route::group(['prefix' => 'login/'], function () {
Route::post('login', 'Api\Auth\AuthController#login');
Route::group(['middleware' => 'jwt:api'], function() {
Route::get('me', 'Api\Auth\AuthController#me');
Route::post('refreshToken', 'Api\Auth\AuthController#refresh');
Route::post('logout', 'Api\Auth\AuthController#logout');
});
});
Route::group(['middleware' => 'jwt:api'], function() {
Route::resource('users', 'Api\User\UserController');
// my other routes protected .....
I don't like this approach because I need to copy the middleware.
I tried this approach :
Route::group(
[
'middleware' => ['jwt:api', ['except' => 'login/login']],
'prefix' => 'v1/',
], function() {
But I have this error :
Illegal offset type in isset or empty
Is it possible ? I want to group everything in my route file.

Answer 1

Possible solutions:
You can pass additional parameters to middleware via dots and check in middleware to do not use passed routes
Also, you can overwrite middleware and add some property\constant with array of excepts, like in csrf middleware
Implement ability in Laravel core to pass except array as in your exmaple and make a PR to framework github
Left it as you have done