Laravel route trailing slash

Let laravel route work as exactly as how we define it including the trailing slash.

Background

Currently when we define a route, Laravel will trim all the trailing slashes, output the route url without any trailing slash. When we access an url with trailing slashes, Laravel also will trim them. That makes the trailing slashes meaningless, sometimes it's quite annoying.

Define a route like this

use App\Http\Controllers\PartnersController;

Route::get('/partners/', [PartnersController::class, 'index'])->name('partners');

Output the route url

echo route('partners');

Current behavior

https://laravel.com/partners

Expected behavior

https://laravel.com/partners/

Pagination render

Using database query builder or LengthAwarePaginator/Paginator

Current behavior

https://laravel.com/partners?page=2

Expected behavior

https://laravel.com/partners/?page=2

Installation

composer require xinningsu/laravel-route-trailing-slash

There are two service providers, as the router service provider has to register at the very beginning before laravel http kernel class instantiation, so I can not make it work by Laravel Package Auto-Discovery function. Have to manually add it.

RoutingServiceProvider

open bootstrap/app.php, right after app instantiation

$app = new Illuminate\Foundation\Application(
    $_ENV['APP_BASE_PATH'] ?? dirname(__DIR__)
);

add

$app->register(Sulao\LRTS\Routing\RoutingServiceProvider::class);

PaginationServiceProvider

Pagination Service Provider has to be added after laravel original Pagination Service Provider.

add Sulao\LRTS\Pagination\PaginationServiceProvider::class to config/app.php under providers element, after Illuminate\Pagination\PaginationServiceProvider::class

[
    Illuminate\Pagination\PaginationServiceProvider::class,
    
    // ...
    
    /*
    * Package Service Providers...
    */
    Sulao\LRTS\Pagination\PaginationServiceProvider::class,

   // ...
];
        

That's it, now we can generate url with/without trailing slash, same as the definition of route.

Mismatch action

Currently Laravel will trim trailing slashes of access url, so no matter how many trailing slashes the url has, it makes no difference.

Current behavior

URL	Status
https://laravel.com/partners	200
https://laravel.com/partners/	200
https://laravel.com/partners////	200

Now we can custom the mismatch action, such as abort 404, or 301/302 redirect, if route mismatch only because of trailing slash.

404 action

open app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php, add below line to register method

\Sulao\LRTS\Routing\Router::$mismatchAction = 404;

Now the behavior became

URL	Status
https://laravel.com/partners	404
https://laravel.com/partners/	200
https://laravel.com/partners////	404

301/302 action

open app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php, add below line to register method

\Sulao\LRTS\Routing\Router::$mismatchAction = 301;

Now the behavior became

URL	Status
https://laravel.com/partners	301 redirect to https://laravel.com/partners/
https://laravel.com/partners/	200
https://laravel.com/partners////	301 redirect to https://laravel.com/partners/

License

MIT