Can we use laravel passport with different guards to authenticate APIs for two different types of users. For example we have driver app for driver user and vendor app for vendor user. Both have their different models Driver and Vendor. How can we use different guards to authenticate both types of users using Laravel Passport?
I managed to create multiple auths (with laravel/passport) by using a simple middlware.
Step 1: config/auth.php
Add your user classes to providers
'guards' => [
'web' => [
'driver' => 'session',
'provider' => 'users',
],
'api' => [
'driver' => 'passport',
'provider' => 'basic_users', // default
],
],
...
'providers' => [
'users' => [
'driver' => 'eloquent',
'model' => App\User::class,
],
'admin_users' => [
'driver' => 'eloquent',
'model' => App\AdminUser::class,
],
'basic_users' => [
'driver' => 'eloquent',
'model' => App\BasicUser::class,
],
],
Clean the cache via CLI
php artisan config:cache
Step 2: Create middleware
php artisan make:middleware AdminUserProvider
Open the newly created middleware in app/Http/Middleware and update the hand method like below
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
config(['auth.guards.api.provider' => 'admin_users']);
return $next($request);
}
Step 3: Register your middleware
Add the newly created middleware to $routeMiddleware
protected $routeMiddleware = [
...
'auth.admin' => \App\Http\Middleware\AdminUserProvider::class,
];
and make sure it's at the top of $middlewarePriority
protected $middlewarePriority = [
\App\Http\Middleware\AdminUserProvider::class,
...
];
Step 4: Add middleware to route
Route::group(['middleware' => ['auth.admin','auth:api']], function() {
Step 5: LoginControllers (AdminUserController & BasicUserController)
public function login()
{
$validatedData = request()->validate([
'email' => 'required',
'password' => 'required|min:6'
]);
// get user object
$user = AdminUser::where('email', request()->email)->first();
// do the passwords match?
if (!Hash::check(request()->password, $user->password)) {
// no they don't
return response()->json(['error' => 'Unauthorized'], 401);
}
// log the user in (needed for future requests)
Auth::login($user);
// get new token
$tokenResult = $user->createToken($this->tokenName);
// return token in json response
return response()->json(['success' => ['token' => $tokenResult->accessToken]], 200);
}
In summary:
The login controllers use Eloquent models to get the user object and then log the user in through Auth::login($user)
Then for future requests that need authentication, the new middleware will change the api auth guard provider to the correct class.