# Call routing handler by name from different route

**URL:** <https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/call-routing-handler-by-name-from-different-route/4939>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [September 4, 2021, 7:35am UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/call-routing-handler-by-name-from-different-route/4939 "2021-09-04T07:35:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 7:35am UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/call-routing-handler-by-name-from-different-route/4939/1 "2021-09-04T07:35:01Z")

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Is it possible to setup a route that calls another routes handler when hit?

Im setting up a vuejs system and instead of using the routes like /api/user/profile

```auto
$app->get("/api/user/profile",Controllers\User\ProfileController::class);

```

I would like to leverage the “name” part on the routes ie:

```auto
// Normal api routes.
$app->get("/api/user/profile",Controllers\User\ProfileController::class);
// Then a "special" route that gets the route name as a param and invokes the route by that name.
$app->get("/api/@{routeName}", function (Request $request, ResponseInterface $response) use ($app) {
        $name = $request->getAttribute('routeName');
        try {
            $route = $app->getRouteCollector()->getRouteParser()->urlFor($name);
        } catch (\Throwable $exception){
            throw new HttpNotFoundException($request,"Route named '{$name}' not found");
        }

```

The above gets me the url for the route and i could probably just do a redirect on that. But i was wondering if there’s a way to actually call / invoke that found routes handler without a redirect?

Sort of like a `return $app->getRouteCollector()-getRouteByName($name)->handle($request,$response);`

* * *

possible solution if the above is not possible:

As a fallback i’ll probably just go with a redirect if this isn’t possible.  
Something like:

```auto
 $route = $app->getRouteCollector()->getRouteParser()->urlFor($name,$request->getQueryParams(),$request->getQueryParams());

```

The usage for this would be:

```auto
//Routes.php
$module->group("/test", function (RouteCollectorProxy $group) {
    $group->get("[/{id}]",HomeController::class)->setName("testing_home");
});

 $app->get("/api/@{routeName}", function (Request $request, ResponseInterface $response) use ($app) {
        $name = $request->getAttribute('routeName');
        try {
            $route = $app->getRouteCollector()->getRouteParser()->urlFor($name,$request->getQueryParams(),$request->getQueryParams());
// Todo: implement redirect
        } catch (\Throwable $exception){
            throw new HttpNotFoundException($request,"Route named '{$name}' not found");
        }

```

and in vuejs

```auto
 api("/api/@testing_home?id=7&testing=abc"

```

Which outputs the url `urlFor($name,$request->getQueryParams(),$request->getQueryParams())`

```auto
/api/test/3?id=3&test=abc

```

i could look at prefixing the params with a ?param\_id=3&test=abc but i think its less intuitive than just duplicating the query string and the route params. (unless theres a way to get a list of route params used for a route when a route name is given? In which case i would pass just the params to the $data part of urlFor and remove them from the getQueryString() array)

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**Author:** ![awstam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@awstam](https://discourse.slimframework.com/u/awstam)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 7:57am UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/call-routing-handler-by-name-from-different-route/4939/2 "2021-09-04T07:57:54Z")

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So turns out the first part “is” possible…

```auto
return $app->getRouteCollector()->getNamedRoute($name)->setArguments($request->getQueryParams())->run($request);

```

But this doesnt “re-run” the middleware stack. So stuff like auth n what not would still be on the /api/@xxx route.