Benevolent

Use Case

Imagine you built a Laravel-powered website, which needs to communicates to your external API server using REST API. Some of the HTTP requests needs to be authenticated by including access token to the Authorization header. To get the access token, you first authenticate the user to the API server, and then the server return the access token and user data in exchange. You store the access token to use it on every authenticated HTTP requests. All is well until you realize, that default Laravel authentication middleware cannot authenticate user to another server leveraging REST API, and you need to write new authentication logics to cover those requirements...

That's why this package exist. Just install this package, set the config, and you all done!

Installation

Laravel

Require this package in the project.

$ composer require elzdave/benevolent

Publish the config after installation.

$ php artisan vendor:publish --tag=benevolent-config

Usage

User Authentication

1. At the config/auth.php, change the provider entry on guards.web to benevolent
2. Add the new entry on .env and .env.example, change <your-external-API-base-URI> to your authentication server's base URI, eg: https://server.api/v1

3. Optional: adjust some settings to suit your API server design at config/benevolent.php

Making Authenticated HTTP Request using Authorization header

If you want to make authenticated HTTP requests using the user's access token, use the Elzdave\Benevolent\Http\Http facade with useAuth() method

<?php

use Elzdave\Benevolent\Http\Http;

$data = [
    'data' => 'some-data-to-store'
];

$apiRelativeUrl = 'path/relative/to/base-uri';
$apiResponse = Http::useAuth()->post($apiRelativeUrl, $data);

Change log

Please see the changelog for more information on what has changed recently.

Testing

$ composer test

Contributing

Please see contributing.md for details and a todolist.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email the author instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• David Eleazar
• All contributors

License

MIT. Please see the license file for more information.