Laravel: is there a way to organize routes into hierarchical tree - laravel

Question

My user model has different roles which have inheritance relationship between each other, for example: admin is a child of superadmin.
I am trying to drop this relationship on my routes in order to organize them and avoid routes like:
Route::group(['namespace' => 'Admin\MultiDispatch', 'middleware' => ['auth.jwt:superadmin|admin']], function () {
});
I moved every role routes into files Admin.php & SuperAdmin.php
and required the files in routes.php:
/*ADMIN ROLES*/
Route::group(['middleware' => ['auth.jwt:admin']], function () {
require base_path('routes/roles/Admin.php');
});
/*SUPERADMIN ROLES */
Route::group(['middleware' => ['auth.jwt:superadmin']], function () {
require base_path('routes/roles/SuperAdmin.php');
});
and in superadmin.php I required Admin.php file again as superadmin should extend all admin routes:
<?php
require base_path('routes/roles/Admin.php');
But it seems that the endpoints that exist in Admin.php are only available to superadmin access.
is there another way to implement the inheritance concept in routes file except mention superadmin in admin routes?
/*ADMIN ROLES*/
Route::group(['middleware' => ['auth.jwt:admin,superadmin']], function () {
require base_path('routes/roles/Admin.php');
});
especially my tree is long and there are so many roles under admin

Answer 1

Yes you can totally separate them by creating new route files in routes folder then map them.
Create admin.php and superadmin.php routes in your /routes folder.
Go to app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php
If you want to have separate controllers for them, create separate Namespaces for them:
public function map()
{
...
$this->mapAdminRoutes();
$this->mapSuperAdminRoutes();
...
}
protected function mapAdminRoutes()
{
Route::prefix('admin')
->middleware(['web', 'auth.jwt:admin'])
->namespace('App\Http\Controllers\Admin')
->name('admin.')
->group(base_path('routes/admin.php'));
}
protected function mapSuperAdminRoutes()
{
Route::middleware('web', 'auth.jwt:superadmin')
->namespace('App\Http\Controllers\SuperAdmin')
->name('superadmin.')
->group(base_path('routes/superadmin.php'));
}
Check the namespace, that means you can put different controllers in different folders, eg. the admin controllers in App\Http\Controllers\Admin, so you can create a folder in app/Http/Controllers called Admin. Then in the controllers you change your namespace to namespace App\Http\Controllers\Admin; then use App\Http\Controllers\Controller; to find the BaseController you are extending from.
prefix: /{prefix}/your-routes-here
name: Naming your route group, eg. route('superadmin.users.add')
namespace: Where your controllers are
group: Where your routes file is
In the route file you can add routes like you would for normal guest/web routes. Just add them one by one or even group them again. But the above will already be grouped by prefix: /admin or /superadmin, and named admin. or superadmin., and middleware attached, and in different folders for conveniency.
Type php artisan route:list in your console/terminal and see the results!
With the above I always separate my /admin or /dashboard from / (guest) routes. Much cleaner this way! :)

Answer 2

Middleware Groups
You can group midleware together in a way that I think will suit your needs;
Route::middleware(['auth.jwt:admin'])->group(function(){
// Routes that need admin middleware access go here
Route::middleware([''auth.jwt:superadmin''])->group(function(){
// Routes that need admin AND superadmin middleware access go here
});
});
That should allow you to just nest middleware groups inside one another to provide a hierarchical list of routes.