Set current route programmatically; setCurrentRoute is missing - php

Question

I just upgraded to Laravel 4.1 and can no longer use a function I was using in the past. I wrote a function to redirect an incoming request to another route, get the result, and replace the current route with the original incoming route. I used this on my frontend controllers to consume my own API which is defined in the same application.
Here is the function:
public static function redirectRequest($newRoute, $verb, $args = null)
{
// store the original request data and route
$originalInput = Request::input();
$originalRoute = Route::current();
$request = $args === null ? Request::create($newRoute, $verb) : Request::create($newRoute, $verb, $args);
// replace the request input for the new route...
Request::replace($request->input());
try
{
$response = Route::dispatch($request);
return $response;
}
catch (\Exception $e)
{
throw $e;
}
finally
{
// replace the request input and route back to the original state
Request::replace($originalInput);
Route::setCurrentRoute($originalRoute);
}
}
And I would use it like:
Helpers::redirectRequest('/api/v1/someroute', 'GET');
The problem is that, when I try to return things to the way they were before the redirect, I can't. setCurrentRoute has been removed from 4.1 and I can't figure out how to reset the current route.

Answer 1

One thing that I have done in the past is used the actual routes.php to handle that. If you register a "catchall" route as:
Route::get('api/v1', 'ApiController#route');
As long as this is after all other routes (Laravel uses the first matching route) you can then handle that within your ApiController as
public function route($uri) {
// Handle your API route using the $uri variable
}
This may not be the solution that you are looking for, but I have found it very convenient.