The custom middleware is not working in the controller (Laravel) - laravel

Question

I did a custom middleware to handle the auth api token and I call this middleware in the controller, but it's not working I added dd('') inside the middleware to see if it displays anything and it did not worked.
My middleware is:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use Closure;
use App\ApiUser;
class ApiAuth
{
/**
* Run the request filter.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param \Closure $next
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle($request, Closure $next, $var)
{
dd('If I put this dd it does not display anything');
$api_user_count = ApiAuth::where('api_token', $var)->count();
if($api_user_count == 0)
{
abort(403, "Auth failed")
}
return $next($request)
}
}
My controller is, how you can see I am sending a parameter to the middleware:
/**
* Remove the specified resource from storage.
*
* #param int $id
* #return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
public function store(Request $request)
{
$this->middleware('apiauth:'.$request->api_token);
$transaction = new Transaction;
$transaction->folio = $request->folio;
$transaction->dte_code = $request->dte_code;
$transaction->cashier = $request->cashier;
$transaction->amount = $request->amount;
if($transaction->save())
{
return response()->json('Ok', 201);
}
else
{
return response()->json('Error', 400);
}
}
I put the middleware in the path App\Http\Middleware\ApiAuth.php
I put the middleware in the kernel.php like this:
/**
* The application's route middleware.
*
* These middleware may be assigned to groups or used individually.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $routeMiddleware = [
'auth' => \Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\Authenticate::class,
'auth.basic' => \Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\AuthenticateWithBasicAuth::class,
'bindings' => \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
'can' => \Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\Authorize::class,
'guest' => \App\Http\Middleware\RedirectIfAuthenticated::class,
'throttle' => \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\ThrottleRequests::class,
'apiauth' => \App\Http\Middleware\ApiAuth::class, // THIS IS THE MINE
];
The weird thing is that it does not display any error, it's like it does not exist so I wonder what it's wrong with this?
Thanks!

Answer 1

instead of calling the middleware manually from your controller method you can register the middleware to apply only for that one method
public function __construct()
{
$this->middleware('apiauth')->only(['store']);
}
then you can extract the api_token from $request
$api_user_count = ApiAuth::where('api_token', $request-> api_token)->get()->count();