Pass arguments to middleware

You can pass arguments to your middleware for specific routes by appending ':' followed by the value. For example, I'm enforcing different authentication methods based on the route using a single middleware.

1Route::get('...')->middleware('auth.license');
2Route::get('...')->middleware('auth.license:bearer');
3Route::get('...')->middleware('auth.license:basic');

 1class VerifyLicense
 2{
 3    public function  handle(Request $request, Closure $next, $type = null)
 4    {
 5        $licenseKey  = match ($type) {
 6            'basic'  => $request->getPassword(),
 7            'bearer' => $request->bearerToken(),
 8            default  => $request->get('key')
 9        };
10 
11        // Verify license and return response based on the authentication type
12    }
13}

Tip given by @Philo01