How can I specify a guard in middleware for route?

Question

I have two routes as follow:

Route::GET('admins/', 'UserController@index')->middleware('jwt.auth');
Route::GET('visitors', 'UserController@indexVisitors')->middleware('jwt.auth');

And I have guards in auth.php:

'guards' => [
    'web' => [
        'driver' => 'session',
        'provider' => 'users',
    ],

    'api' => [
        'driver' => 'jwt-auth',
        'provider' => 'users',
    ],
    'visitor_api' => [
        'driver' => 'jwt-auth',
        'provider' => 'visitors',
    ],
],

I tried to specify the guard in the middleware but it doesn't work.

Route::GET('visitors', 'UserController@indexVisitors')
->middleware('jwt.auth.visitors_api');

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 09 '18 at 11:37

If you would like to set a default guard through out the Route::group then you can use below syntax

Route::group(['middleware' => ['web','auth:visitor_api'], 'prefix' => 'visitor'], function() {
  Route::get('/home', 'VisitorController@index')->name('home');
  Route::get('/list', 'VisitorController@list')->name('list'); 
});

after this you can use Auth::id() instead of Auth::guard('visitor_api')->id() in your VisitorController.

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 28 '18 at 03:53

4

I think this is what you want

Route::GET('visitors', 'UserController@indexVisitors')->middleware('auth:visitors_api');

You can specify a guard by passing it as a parameter (after the colon character)

You can refer to the laravel documentation:

https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/authentication

Under Authentication Quickstart > Protecting Routes > Specifying A Guard

answered Mar 28 '18 at 03:53

aceraven777

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Thanks for the answer. with the above line it says: guard [visitors_api] not defined and replacing with `jwt.auth:visitors_api` says: `User not found' because it tries the defaul guard not the `visitors_api` – Maihan Nijat Mar 28 '18 at 04:07
I don't know anything about `jwt.auth` middleware. Did you install `jwt` package? Or did you make your own middleware? – aceraven777 Mar 28 '18 at 04:11
Can you provide me the link to the package – aceraven777 Mar 28 '18 at 04:12
The `jwt.auth:visitors_api` is working, but it works also with another user token. – Maihan Nijat Mar 28 '18 at 04:17

How can I specify a guard in middleware for route?

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