Redirect a route in Laravel 5.3 - php

Question

Im building an API in Laravel 5.3. In my routes/api.php file I have 3 endpoints:
Route::post('/notify/v1/notifications', 'Api\Notify\v1\NotifyApiController#notificationsPost');
Route::post('/notify/v1/alerts', 'Api\Notify\v1\NotifyApiController#alertsPost');
Route::post('/notify/v1/incidents', 'Api\Notify\v1\NotifyApiController#incidentsPost');
Several services will call these routes directly, however, when a request comes in from some services, the input data needs to be processed before it can hit these endpoints.
For example, if a request comes in from JIRA, I need to process the input before it hits these endpoints.
Im thinking that the simplest way to do this would be to have a 4th endpoint like the below:
Route::post('/notify/v1/jira', 'Api\Notify\v1\JiraFormatter#formatJiraPost');
The idea being to hit the /notify/v1/jira endpoint, have the formatJiraPost method process the input and then forward the request to /notify/v1/notifications (/alerts, /incidents) as required.
How can I have the /notify/v1/jira endpoint forward the request to the /notify/v1/notifications endpoint?
Do you see a better way to do this?

Answer 1

Depending how your app will work, you could always have your services pointing to /notify/v1/jira and then do the processing like you suggested.
Another alternative is have the JIRA service pointing at the same routes as all the other services but to use a Before middleware group to pre-process your data. Something like
Route::group(['middleware' => ['verifyService']], function () {
Route::post('/notify/v1/notifications', 'Api\Notify\v1\NotifyApiController#notificationsPost');
Route::post('/notify/v1/alerts', 'Api\Notify\v1\NotifyApiController#alertsPost');
Route::post('/notify/v1/incidents', 'Api\Notify\v1\NotifyApiController#incidentsPost');
});
You could check in your middleware your service.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use Closure;
class verifyService
{
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
//You could use switch/break case structure
if (isJIRA($request)) {
//Do some processing, it could be outsourced to another class
//$JiraPost = new formatJiraPost($request);
//Keep the requesting going to the routes with processed data
return $next($request);
}
//You could add extra logic to check for more services.
return $next($request);
}
protected function isJIRA(Request $request){
//Logic to check if it is JIRA.
}
}