Laravel 5 Authenticator

Question

I'm trying to implement socialite but I am getting an error relating to the authenticator class. My app can not find it.

This is the code in my controller

<?php namespace App;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticator;
use App\Repositories\UserRepository as UserRepository;
use Laravel\Socialite\Contracts\Factory as Socialite;

class AuthenticateUser {

    private $users;
    private $socialite;
    private $auth;
        public function __construct(UserRepository $users, Socialite $socialite, Authenticator $auth)
    {
        $this->users = $users;
        $this->socialite = $socialite;
        $this->auth = $auth;
    }
    public function execute($hasCode)
    {
        if ( ! $hasCode ) return $this->getAuthorisationFirst();

        $user = $this->socialite->drivers('google')->user();

        dd($user);
    }

private function getAuthorisationFirst()
{
    return $this->socialite->driver('google')->redirect();
}

}

The error I receive is

ReflectionException in Container.php line 833: Class Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticator does not exist

Answer 1

It seems that with laravel 5 the authenticator is now called Guard

The Authenticator was renamed to Guard. In the AuthenticateUser.php file rename 'use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticator;' to 'use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Guard;' and don't forget to also change it in constructor function too" –