I am using Laravel Passport (auth:api), all works well however I've came with the idea to log record user requests on a specific route.
When an GET request is made to /movie/65 I would like to store in movie_view the following data: user_id, movie_id (if the user is logged in)
However in my controller I am unable to call $request->user() without setting auth:api middleware.
What is the best practice you recommend to achieve this?
Best way to do this is:
if (\Auth::guard('api')->check()) {
$user = \Auth::guard('api')->user();
}
you have to setup the guard to 'api', the default one is 'web'.
Default Auth Type should be set to 'api' in config/auth.php
Source: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/optional-authentication-for-api?page=0 (it was very hard to find)
You can create a custom middleware as suggested here -- https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/how-to-handle-route-with-optional-authentication. Then apply api guard to it. Let say you assign that custom middleware as auth.optional in Kernel.php, then you can use that middleware as auth.optional:api (with that api guard). Then you can access user thru $request->user() in your case above.