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Seems like you're searching for this: https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/authentication#adding-custom-user-providers
Here is the example of how it could look: https://github.com/cesg/api-user-provider/blob/master/src/ApiUserProvider.php
Sep 14, 2019
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Using Laravel 5.8 authentication with external JSON/JWT API
Hi,
I'm building a Laravel 5.8 application to be the front-end to an external API written in Go. I POST a user/pass to the API which then responds with either HTTP/200 and a JSON Token (JWT) or an HTTP/401 to signal the credentials are invalid.
I would like to use Laravel's built-in auth mechanism (or anything which makes this work really) to be able to create pages and routes only for logged in users. It seems a lot of work to reinvent the wheel.
Any idea how I go about doing that? I guess I need a custom auth driver but can't find much reliable information for that.
[TLDR] Basically I need some code which checks if the API returns an HTTP/200, stores the token somewhere (session/cookie [but not database]) and then provide's some way to easily (virtually) log users into the Laravel app. That way I can create pages for logged in users only.
Thanks!
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Should I install this package for using an external API? @sti3bas
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You can use Guzzle for external API calls, and also modify the login() method in the LoginController to call the external API instead of using a database call (auth()->attempt()).
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I did it, however, I cannot use Auth:: methods. I do not want just store it in session. Also, I want to use guards for it. @ruffles
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