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Laravel Socialite intelephense Undefined Method

I'm using laravel socialite package for user authentication using google. I'm getting this error from intelephense of the IDE but the code is working. I want to know if there is something I did wrong.

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@shenald No, you haven’t done anything wrong.

The return type of the driver method is the Provider interface (https://github.com/laravel/socialite/blob/5.x/src/Contracts/Provider.php). This interface only declares two methods (redirect and user).

So even though what is actually returned from the driver method (an instance of the GoogleProvider implementation) does have a userFromToken method, Intelephense is saying, “I was told I was getting this interface, and that interface does not contain that method” even though the actual implementation does.

You could satisfy Intelephense by manually typing the returned object first instead:

/** @var \Laravel\Socialite\Two\GoogleProvider $google */
$google = Socialite::driver('google');

$user = $google->userFromToken($request->input('token'));
$user = $this->findOrCreate($user);
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@shenald Glad you found it helpful. Feel free to mark it as best reply if it answered your question.

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