How is method call passed from `Routes` to `RoutesCollection`?

Question

I am trying to understand how Laravel gets all fresh application routes at this line :

$this->getFreshApplication()['router']->getRoutes()

When I dump $this->getFreshApplication()['router'] then I find an instance of Illuminate/Routing/Route :

This instance (and its traits) have no method getRoutes . This is a method from Illuminate/Routing/RouteCollection .

Why does the method call getRoutes() on the Route instance endup on RouteCollection ? I also checked the magic method __get() from Route but it is not evoked when calling getRoutes() .

Answer 1

I think the correct type you get for $this->getFreshApplication()['router'] is Illuminate\Routing\Router instead of a Illuminate/Routing/Route instance.