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The purpose of this middleware is to dispatch the request to the assigned handler, also known as the controller.

Requirements

• PHP 7.4 or above

Usage

Middleware needs a resolver object to be able to make the proper request handler object. It must be injected through the constructor. This package contains a simple resolver implementation which uses a PSR-11 compatible DI container to do the job:

$resolver   = new ContainerResolver($container);
$middleware = new RequestDispatcher($resolver);

Middleware looks for a special attribute of the request object called __handler. This attribute tells which handler should handle the request. If it's missing, nothing happens, request will be passed to the next middleware.

Here an example how you can tell which handler should handle the request:

// PSR-7 server request object
$request = $request->withAttribute('__handler', MyController::class);
$middleware->process($request, $nextMiddleware);