how to Inject a Sentry 2 User Model into a controller - laravel 4

Question

How do you inject a Sentry 2 User model into a laravel 4 controller using IoC?

for example i would like the following

class myController extends BaseController {

    /**
     * creates a list of MyModel Models
     *
     * @return View
     */
    public function getIndex( User $user )
    {
        // fetch models
        $models = MyModel::all();

        // Show the page
        return View::make('my-views.the-view', compact('models', 'user'));
    }

}

Answer 1

This is how I like to do it:

class myController extends BaseController {

    $protected $user

    /**
     * creates a list of MyModel Models
     *
     * @return View
     */

    function __construct(User $user){
        parent::__construct();
        $this->user = $user;
    }

    public function getIndex()
    {
        // fetch models
        $models = MyModel::all();

        // Show the page
        return View::make('my-views.the-view', compact('models', 'user'));
    }

}

You can also do it in the method, but... well, give this a good read, too: http://fabien.potencier.org/article/11/what-is-dependency-injection