How to identify the data type returned from a controller?

Question

I noticed that when creating a controller in Laravel it informs that some methods will return an object \Illuminate\Http\Response.

I used a dd() at the end of the method and saw the following return: \Illuminate\View\View and in another method \Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse

In this case, when documenting the methods I should always consider: \Illuminate\Http\Response or I can insert the object displayed in the method output dd()?

Answer 1

You can use the instanceof of PHP

if ($objeto instanceof \Illuminate\Http\Response) {
    ... faz algo aqui ...
} else if ($objeto instanceof \Illuminate\View\View) {
    ... faz algo aqui ...
}