Lumen JWT send token with requests - laravel

Question

Authentication is working, I have a few routes under auth middleware, Whenever i request it throws :
{
"message": "Failed to authenticate because of bad credentials or an invalid authorization header.",
"status_code": 401
}
How can i send the token with the request like :
Authorization bearer {{Long token}}
It works with `postman`, How can i send the token with request header, Or in any other best way.
Route :
$api->get('/categories', [
'uses' => 'App\Http\Controllers\CategoryController#index',
'as' => 'api.categories',
]);
Method :
public function index() {
$lessons = \App\Category::all();
$token = JWTAuth::getToken(); // $token have jwt token
return response()->json([
'data' => $lessons,
'code' => 200,
]);
}

Answer 1

The question was pretty vague to answer. Please be more specific from next time. From your comments i could finally realise that you want to consume the api from a mobile app.
You need to return the token generated for an user either during login or during registration or any other authentication method/route you have. The mobile app needs to read this response and store the token locally. Then the app needs to inject this token in the request header for every single request. That's the normal api token workflow.
The app should also be coded to read the error response from requests and if it returns errors for expired or invalid token, the app needs to clear the locally stored token and then request the user to login again to generate a fresh token.

Answer 2

you can use : https://github.com/tymondesigns/jwt-auth
requriment :
Laravel 4 or 5 (see compatibility table)
PHP 5.4 +
Steps:
1 : add below line in composer.json in require array
"tymon/jwt-auth": "0.5.*"
2 : run "composer update" in your terminal
3 : after this you have to register service provider
go to config/app.php
and add 'Tymon\JWTAuth\Providers\JWTAuthServiceProvider' this in provider array
and 'JWTAuth' => 'Tymon\JWTAuth\Facades\JWTAuth' , 'JWTFactory' => 'Tymon\JWTAuth\Facades\JWTFactory' this to aliases array
4 : publish pacakge :
"php artisan vendor:publis --provider="Tymon\JWTAuth\Providers\JWTAuthServiceProvider"
5 : generate secrate key in config file
'php artisan jwt:generate'
6 : for addition configuration : https://github.com/tymondesigns/jwt-auth/wiki/Configuration
Usage :
AuthenticateController.php
use JWTAuth;
use Tymon\JWTAuth\Exceptions\JWTException;
class AuthenticateController extends Controller
{
public function authenticate(Request $request)
{
// grab credentials from the request
$credentials = $request->only('email', 'password');
try {
// attempt to verify the credentials and create a token for the user
if (! $token = JWTAuth::attempt($credentials)) {
return response()->json(['error' => 'invalid_credentials'], 401);
}
} catch (JWTException $e) {
// something went wrong whilst attempting to encode the token
return response()->json(['error' => 'could_not_create_token'], 500);
}
// all good so return the token
return response()->json(compact('token'));
}
}
You can also skip user authentication and just pass in a User object. e.g.
// grab some user
$user = User::first();
$token = JWTAuth::fromUser($user);
The above two methods also have a second parameter where you can pass an array of custom claims. e.g.
$customClaims = ['foo' => 'bar', 'baz' => 'bob'];
JWTAuth::attempt($credentials, $customClaims);
// or
JWTAuth::fromUser($user, $customClaims);
create token based on anything
$customClaims = ['foo' => 'bar', 'baz' => 'bob'];
$payload = JWTFactory::make($customClaims);
$token = JWTAuth::encode($payload);
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