Match any route to OPTIONS request method

[akrz]

Is it possible to make a route that matches all routes for a given request method? I need this to match any route to an OPTIONS request method. Something like this:

$router->options('*', function (){
    return new Response();
});

[nmsobri]

@akrz did you find a solution to this?

[akrz]

Sort of, I do a catch of HttpMethodNotAllowedException and check that the HTTP method is OPTIONS.
i.e.:

try {
    // dispatch route...
} catch (HttpMethodNotAllowedException $e) {
    if ($requestMethod === 'OPTIONS') {
        $this->handleOptionsRequests($e->getMessage()); // I send an empty response with appropriate headers here
    }

    throw new HttpMethodNotAllowedException($e->getMessage());
}

[nitz]

Apologies to the people I'm replying to here, as this thread is almost a year and a half old, I just wanted to share what I found that worked, in case someone else finds this useful.

So I created a route that takes just a single parameter of 0 or more of any characters, and then just ignored that value.

However, the '0' portion of that (including with the ? which should make it optional), an OPTIONS / request would still 404. So, "I'll just add a / route, right?"

Well, yes but you have to be careful:

$router->options('/{x:.*}?', function($x = null) { return httpOptions(); });
$router->options('/', function() { return httpOptions(); }); // this throws...

If you add it like that, you'll get a Phroute\\Phroute\\Exception\\BadRouteException that says: Static route '' is shadowed by previously defined variable route '(.*)' for method 'OPTIONS' in /path/to/app/vendor/phroute/phroute/src/Phroute/RouteCollector.php:157

So it even realizes that the regex route should catch it (despite it not)

All is not lost though; This works just fine:

$router->options('/', function() { return httpOptions(); });
$router->options('/{x:.*}?', function($x = null) { return httpOptions(); });

Handles OPTIONS /, OPTIONS /foo, OPTIONS /b/a/r, and so on. Definitely appears to be a bug here of some sort.