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Reputation: 609

Laravel Passport - Passing access token to requests

I'm working with Laravel Passport for the first time. I'm building an API that will be consumed by a mobile application.

For the authentication, this is what i'm doing:

public function login(Request $request)
{ 
    $loginData = Validator::make($request->all(), [
        'email' => 'required|email',
        'password' => 'required',
    ]);

    if( $loginData->fails() )
    {
        return response()->json(['error' => $loginData->errors()], 401);
    }

    if( Auth::attempt(['email' => request('email'), 'password' => request('password')]) )
    { 
        $data = [
            'grant_type' => 'password',
            'client_id' => $this->client->id,
            'client_secret' => $this->client->secret,
            'username' => $request->email,
            'password' => $request->password,
            'scope' => '',
        ];

        $request = Request::create('/oauth/token', 'POST', $data);
        return app()->handle($request);
    } 
    else
    { 
        return response()->json(['error' => 'Invalid credentials'], 401); 
    } 
}

Successful login returns the access token as such:

{
"token_type": "Bearer",
"expires_in": 31622400,
"access_token": "access_token",
"refresh_token": "refresh_token"
}

Now the aim is to use this access token by passing it to the header of all routes that need authentication.

For example in my routes/api.php file, i have this route:

Route::post('/login', 'API\AuthController@login');
Route::apiResource('/tasks', 'API\TaskController')->middleware('auth:api');

In my TaskController, all the methods in it need to be passed a header that contains the access token so as to authenticate the request. This is where my question is. I can't seem to find a resource so far that explains how to do this. So in every request i need to pass something like this to the header of the request:

Accept: application/json
Authorization: Bearer access_token

This is my TaskController index method. How do i pass the access token in here?

public function index()
{
    //how do i capture the access token in here so that i can pass it to the request header?
    return TaskResource::collection(auth()->user()->tasks()->latest()->paginate(4));
}

Is there a default Passport method that can be used to pass the access token to required requests or how can it be done?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7454

Answers (2)

Romik Makavana
Romik Makavana

Reputation: 83

using $request->bearerToken(); method you can get the request token.

    use Illuminate\Http\Request;
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
           echo $request->bearerToken();
    }

Upvotes: 0

ata
ata

Reputation: 1354

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
public function index(Request $request)
{
       $bearerToken = $request->header('Authorization'); // will return "Bearer access_token" string
}

Then you will need to get access_token from "Bearer access_token" string. If you need access_token to retrieve user, you can use $user = $request->user() to get user.

Upvotes: 3

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