Laravel 5: Middleware before & after into routes - php

Question

I have two Middlewares: beforeCache & afterCache, boths registered on Kernel.
I want to call them into routes in this order:
1. beforeCache
2. myController
3. afterCache
If I define a route like this:
Route::get('especies/{id}', [
'middleware' => 'beforeCache',
'uses' => 'MyController#myMethod',
'middleware' => 'afterCache',
]);
beforeCache don't executes because afterCache is redefining the same array key middleware.
How should I do that? Thanks!

Answer 1

I'll assume you're using 5.1 in this, but what you're doing is essentially trying to define an array of attributes on the route. The brackets [] are just a shorthand version of saying array(...).
From the documentation (http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/middleware#defining-middleware) specifically the Before / After Middleware you simply just need to return a certain way.
For Before middlewares you do your code and return the next request after your code executes.
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
// Perform action
return $next($request);
}
For After middleware you handle the rest of the request and then your code executes and finally return the response.
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
$response = $next($request);
// Perform action
return $response;
}
The route would end up looking like this,
Route::get('especies/{id}',[
'middleware' => [
'beforeCache',
'afterCache'
],
'uses' => 'MyController#myMethod'
]);

Answer 2

class BeforeMiddleware implements Middleware {
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
// Do Stuff
return $next($request);
}
}
class AfterMiddleware implements Middleware {
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
$response = $next($request);
// Do stuff
return $response;
}
}
1-The before middleware operates and then passes on the request.
2-The after middleware allows the request to be processed, and then operates on it