tryOrAbort abort when an Exception happens

[omer-biz]

Hello everyone, I'm new to Laravel and enjoying it so far.

Most of the exceptions are handled very well in the framework, but sometimes you just want a simple abort call, but to do that you have to use the try catch block which will produce boilerplate. So I'm proposing this simple helper code. Please do share your insights.

    /**
     * Attempt to execute a given callback and abort if an exception occurs.
     *
     *
     * @param  Closure $callback   The callback to execute.
     * @param  int     $statusCode The HTTP status code to use if an exception is caught (default: 500).
     * @return  mixed              The result of the callback, if successful.
     *
     * @throws \Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\HttpException
     */
    function tryOrAbort(Closure $callback, int $statusCode = 500)
    {
        try {
            return $callback();
        } catch (\Throwable $e) {
            abort($statusCode, $e->getMessage());
        }
    }

Example Usage:

Route::get('/auth/redirect/{provider}', function (string $provider) {
    return tryOrAbort(fn() => Socialite::driver($provider)->redirect(), 404);
});

Route::get('/auth/callback/{provider}', function (string $provider) {
    $user = tryOrAbort(fn() => Socialite::driver($provider)->user(), 404);
    // ...
});

[henzeb]

How about:

rescue(fn() => Socialite::driver($provider)->user(), fn() => abort(404));

https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/helpers#method-rescue

[omer-biz]

I didn't know about this, thanks.