Laravel WS Router

The Router provides a good way to do kind or URL routing for websockets. The library depends on cboden/ratchet which is the WebSocket server used but feel free to write the same for other WebSocket servers.

The library works based on the fields path given in the JSON message. All the configuration is done via the router.php file published.

The library handles Middlewares, Prefixes namespaces in grouping similarly to Laravel 5 URL routing.

Installation

Require Calen/router in your L5 project. I used PHP7 to write it, so it has a dependency on it.

composer require calen/router

Then add the Service Provider in the providers in L5 config/app.php:

 'providers' => [
    App\Providers\AppServiceProvider::class,
    App\Providers\AuthServiceProvider::class,
    App\Providers\EventServiceProvider::class,
    App\Providers\RouteServiceProvider::class,

    // ...

    Calen\Router\RatchetRouterServiceProvider::class,

 ],

Once the ServiceProvider is added, you can publish the configuration file by running artisan:

php artisan vendor:publish

This will add the config file router.php in the config repository.

Configuration

You will need to configure the library for it to run correctly. The config file publishes as this:

return [
    'middlewares' => [
        // 'test' => App\WS\AuthMiddleware::class,
    ],
    'routes' => function ($routes) {
        $routes->group(['namespace' => 'App\Http\Controllers'], function ($routes) {
            $routes->route('/', 'HomeController@index');
        });
    },
];

Middlewares

The middlewares look the same as the L5's ones. If you want to provide a middleware on some routes on can add the middleware key to the array given in group function.

The middleware must implement the Calen\Router\Routing\Middleware\Middleware interface.

For example:

$routes->group(
    [
        'namespace' => 'App\Http\Controllers',
        'middleware' => 'dummy',
        'prefix' => 'CalenApp',
    ], function ($routes) {
        // My routes
    });

We add the middleware dummy to all the routes given in the closure.

As L5, the middleware are registered in the config/router.php file, as a name to the class corresponding like this:

return [
    'middlewares' => [
        'dummy' => App\WS\Dummyddleware::class,
    ],
    'routes' => function ($routes) {
        $routes->group(['namespace' => 'App\Http\Controllers'], function ($routes) {
            $routes->route('/', 'HomeController@index');
        });
    },
];

####Note: If the middleware is not registered, it will not be handled

Packagist

My packagist repo is here: https://packagist.org/packages/calen/router