Use Laravel API by another (external) Laravel project

Hello everybody,

as I posted here (https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/use-laravel-api-from-another-laravel-instance) I would like to use the API-Routes of my first Laravel instance (I will call this Laravel API provider) by my second instance (I will call this Laravel API client).

The Laravel API provider is based on vue/vuex/vue-router and the API-routes are protected by laravel/passport.

One example for a protected route on the Laravel API provider:

/*Categories Routes*/
Route::group(['prefix' => 'categories'], function ($router) {
    
    /*Index*/
    Route::middleware('auth:api')->get('/', 'CategoriesApiController@index')
        ->name('api.categories.index');
});

So now I created this call on my Laravel API client:

 $http= new Client();
        $response = $http->request('POST', 'https://laravel-api-provider.local/oauth/token', [
            'headers' => [
                'cache-control' => 'no-cache',
                'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
            ],
            'form_params' => [
                'client_id' => '2',
                'client_secret' => 'secret',
                'grant_type' => 'password',
                'username' => '[email protected]',
                'password' => 'password',
            ],
        ]);

        return json_decode((string) $response->getBody(), true);

This returns:

{
  "token_type": "Bearer",
  "expires_in": 31622400,
  "access_token": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLC......",
  "refresh_token": "def5020084262c0659e6f916b4da2c33e2a78de2206d......"
}

Seems good. So my next question is: How do I call protected routes (like /api/categories/index) using $response on my Laravel API client?

tisuchi

6 years ago

Level 70

@ahoi

Mainly most of the api endpoints are protected. Since you have a access token, you should easily able to access any protected api. Now the only question is scope. Does the scope allows you to access or not.

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ahoi

6 years ago

Best Answer

Level 5

Alright... I got it working doing a simple:

<?php
$response = $client->request('GET',
    'https://laravel-api-provider.local/api/item/index', [
        'headers' => [
            'Accept'        => 'application/json',
            'Authorization' => 'Bearer '.$accessToken,
        ],
    ]);

Works fine :-)

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