Get current user&#39;s ID in API Controller

Level 13

Use as like below.

 auth('api')->user()->id

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Level 1

which Auth you are using ??

Level 1

@MUNAZZIL - Hmmm... when I added that I am getting the following error in my Network XHR...

{message: "Trying to get property 'id' of non-object", exception: "ErrorException",…} exception: "ErrorException" file: "D:\www\xxx\app\Http\Controllers\API\XxxController.php" line: 50 message: "Trying to get property 'id' of non-object" trace: [{file: "D:\www\xxx\app\Http\Controllers\API\XxxController.php", line: 50,…

Any idea how to fix that? Thanks!

Level 1

try to see in laravel.log

          Log::info(Auth::user());

munazzil

Level 13

@ForeverAndADave

Can you show your XxxController.php or migration table datas?

Level 1

@MUNAZZIL -

Sure thing... here you go... (XxxController is actually TeacherController. I just renamed it to make it ambiguous)

API CONTROLLER...

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers\API;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\Teacher;

class TeacherController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Store a newly created resource in storage.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function store(Request $request)
    {

        $attributes = $request->validate([
            'first_name' => 'required',
            'last_name' => 'required',
            'photo' => 'nullable|dimensions:max_width=500,max_height=500|size:5000',
            'dob' => 'nullable|date',
            'gender' => 'required',
            'email' => 'required|email|unique:teachers,email|max:255',
            'phone_1' => 'nullable|min:10|max:15',
            'phone_2' => 'nullable|min:10|max:15',
            'address' => 'nullable|max:255',
            'city' => 'nullable|max:255',
            'state' => 'nullable|max:2',
            'zip' => 'nullable|max:10',
            'hire_date' => 'required|date',
            'termination_date' => 'nullable|date',
            'rate' => 'nullable|integer',
            'notes' => 'nullable',
            'active' => 'required'
        ]);
        
        $attributes['user_id'] = auth('api')->user()->id; //Adds current user's id
        
        Teacher::create($attributes);
    }

    /**
     * Display the specified resource.
     *
     * @param  int  $id
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function show($id)
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Update the specified resource in storage.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @param  int  $id
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function update(Request $request, $id)
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Remove the specified resource from storage.
     *
     * @param  int  $id
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function destroy($id)
    {
        //
    }
}

MIGRATION...

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;

class CreateTeachersTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('teachers', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->unsignedInteger('user_id');
            $table->string('photo')->default('teacher.png');
            $table->string('first_name');
            $table->string('last_name');
            $table->string('gender');
            $table->date('dob')->nullable();
            $table->string('phone_1');
            $table->string('phone_2')->nullable();
            $table->string('email');
            $table->string('address');
            $table->string('city');
            $table->string('state');
            $table->string('zip');
            $table->string('rate')->nullable();
            $table->string('hire_date');
            $table->string('termination_date')->nullable();
            $table->string('notes')->nullable();
            $table->boolean('active')->default(true);
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('teachers');
    }
}

Level 1

Pass the api guard as a parameter to fetch the authorized user without the middleware protecting the request.

$request->user('api');

// Or

auth('api')->user();

Level 1

@EEETM - Yeah I tried those from this post... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50709659/laravel-5-6-how-to-get-auth-user-or-response-user-in-api-controller

They both come back as null :( Not sure what I'm missing.

Level 1

You can not get authenticated user when you are using RESP api .....

You have to pass it as request payload ...

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munazzil

Level 13

Use as like below and check.

     auth('api')->user()->user_id

or else try

          auth()->user()->id

shaikh709

Level 15

Just a silly thing but make sure you are passing token correctly. Like if you are using passport or JWT. Then in your request header token should be present. You can open Chrome DevTools. click on network tab. Click on the request which was made to store data and then click on header. Headers and preview etc will popup when you click on request. Here is how you can find request header in case if you don't know https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/network-performance/reference

In there your token should be passed to server correctly. At this moment your app is returning null when you call auth('api')->user(). So, it is thinking that you are not logged-in yet.

Level 1

@SHAIKH709 - I think you may be on the right track. I see in the tutorial that I'm following there is mention of implementing Passport and JWT (I have no idea what either of those are) in future episodes... so maybe I should just keep moving forward until I reach those areas? Being you mentioned that the app may not be thinking I'm actually logged in until I do that stuff.

I noticed that when I tried to add...

public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware('auth'); //ensures user is logged in
    }

to my controller, it was throwing an error that said message: "Unauthenticated." which is what makes me think you may be right.

Thoughts? :)

shaikh709