Laravel Route Group Second Parameter?

Question

I updated my project from laravel 5.5.* to 5.5.43... Before the update everything was ok. But after the update, I see a warning message in route/web.php.

It says: Required parameter $routes missing.

But everything is working fine. Then when I put an empty string in the second parameter warning message gone.

So my question is:

What should I put in the required second parameter?
If it's required then why everything is working fine? It should be optional.

Try defining it this way `Route::get('user/profile', 'UserProfileController@show');` — Exterminator, Sep 10 '18 at 11:36

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '18 at 12:22

This is actually pretty hard to follow in Laravel. Your IDE is pulling the group definition from Router instead of RouteRegistrar.

Inside Router.php:

public function group(array $attributes, $routes)

This supports the older style of route group definitions where middleware are defined in attributes and your routes closure would be the 2nd argument.

Inside RouteRegistrar.php:

public function group($callback)

This is the new style where group only accepts the closure.

I don't like the fact that they used a condition in __call instead of defining a method for middleware, but when you call Route::middleware, the facade forwards to Router and Router::__call is returning a RouteRegistrar instance because of this line:

    if ($method == 'middleware') {
        return (new RouteRegistrar($this))->attribute($method, is_array($parameters[0]) ? $parameters[0] : $parameters);
    }

Laravel Route Group Second Parameter?

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