Route not found error for wildcard routes

laravel-lsp/src/main.rs

@@ -15814,6 +15814,16 @@ return [
             return out;
         }
         for r in route_refs {
+            // Wildcard patterns (e.g. `players.*`, `players.competitions.*`)
+            // reference a *family* of registered routes — `Route::has`,
+            // `routeIs`, Ziggy, etc. — and never appear verbatim in the index,
+            // so flagging them as "not found" is a false positive. Suppress the
+            // diagnostic for any name containing `*` (issue #209). Applied here,
+            // in the pure function before any I/O, so both the PHP and Blade
+            // call sites inherit it with no LSP restart or cache flush.
+            if r.name.contains('*') {
+                continue;
+            }
             if index.get(&r.name).is_none() {
                 out.push(Diagnostic {
                     range: Range {

laravel-lsp/src/tests/route_diagnostics.rs

@@ -66,3 +66,18 @@ fn all_known_routes_flag_nothing() {
         LaravelLanguageServer::route_not_found_diagnostics(Some(&idx), &[route_ref("home")]);
     assert!(diags.is_empty());
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn wildcard_route_names_flag_nothing() {
+    // Wildcard patterns (`players.*`, `players.competitions.*`) match a family
+    // of registered routes — `Route::has`, `routeIs`, Ziggy — and never appear
+    // verbatim in the index, so they must not be flagged as "not found" even
+    // against a non-empty index that holds no exact match for them (issue #209).
+    let idx = index_with(&["players.competitions.index", "players.competitions.create"]);
+    let refs = vec![route_ref("players.*"), route_ref("players.competitions.*")];
+    let diags = LaravelLanguageServer::route_not_found_diagnostics(Some(&idx), &refs);
+    assert!(
+        diags.is_empty(),
+        "wildcard route patterns must not be flagged as not found"
+    );
+}