Laravel Passport Route [login] not defined

MJ7 picture MJ7 · Mar 15, 2018 · Viewed 30.5k times · Source

i use Laravel passport for auth

in route api.php

Route::get('/todos', function(){
  return 'hello';
})->middleware('auth:api');

but when open localhost:8000/api/todos I see the following error

 InvalidArgumentException
Route [login] not defined.
 * @return string
 *
 * @throws \InvalidArgumentException
 */
public function route($name, $parameters = [], $absolute = true)
{
    if (! is_null($route = $this->routes->getByName($name))) {
        return $this->toRoute($route, $parameters, $absolute);
    }

    throw new InvalidArgumentException("Route [{$name}] not defined.");
}

/**
 * Get the URL for a given route instance.
 *
 * @param  \Illuminate\Routing\Route  $route
 * @param  mixed  $parameters
 * @param  bool   $absolute
 * @return string
 *
 * @throws \Illuminate\Routing\Exceptions\UrlGenerationException
 */
protected function toRoute($route, $parameters, $absolute)
{
    return $this->routeUrl()->to(
        $route, $this->formatParameters($p

I want if the user was not authenticated Do not redirect to any page and only see the page

Answer

Eki picture Eki · Aug 4, 2018

Use Postman and set the Header Accept: application/json otherwise Laravel Passport would never know it's an API client and thus redirect to a /login page for the web.

see below image to see where to set the accept parameter: enter image description here