Is Laravel Auth setup required?

[hipsterjazzbo]

I'm implementing a an API where I'll only need the client_credential grant type. I've got it basically working, except I don't have laravel Auth setup, as I don't need it – I'm basically just using the client_id and client_secret to scope the request to the correct company in the system.

Am I mistaken that Auth needs to be up and running, or is there a way to make it optional?

[dannewns]

I was under the impression that was the case until I went ahead and used this package with a custom authentication which doesn't touch laravel, every time I authenticated it would then try and call methods on the auth model which where being done internally by the package, I ended up having to extend the auth driver as we'll to get around this. It would be great to know if this is correct or if there is a way of stopping it from using auth

Thanks

[hipsterjazzbo]

@dannewns That's exactly what's happening to me. Glad to hear I'm not just nuts. Care to share what you did to get around this issue?

[jasonlewis]

Hm, I would've said it's optional and the only time it would try to call a method is when you're using API::user() inside an endpoint to get the authenticated user. Any more details you can share would be great, I've not the time now but hoping to get a lot more done this weekend.

[jasonlewis]

This may also be related to #56.

[lorencpekaj]

G'day!

If you want to set up custom authentication jazz, refer to the wiki: https://github.com/dingo/api/wiki/Authentication - as I see in the comments, you probably are running into an issue however.

Personally myself, I just have the user API credentials stored in the url itself (e.g /api?api_key={blah}&client={id}) and didn't bother touching the source. Since you're using Laravel, the Input::get(''); tags would be very handy - do validate immensely 😄

Hopefully I've given you another basic idea of yielding a result. 👍

[hipsterjazzbo]

This is actually a dupe of #56, my bad. I'll close this off now.