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Laravel 4 + Sentry 2 as Web service

My question is how do I use laravel 4 with sentry 2 to authenticate users that is calling my API? What are the proper ways in doing this?

Example: a user in native iOS app calls my Laravel Web service (returns JSON response), how can laravel+sentry authenticate the user?

Thanks in advance and comment if you need more info.

Solution

  • If the client is able to persist cookies, you just login with Sentry and it should work. Otherwise, after a common Sentry authentication, create and store an authentication token in your users table:

    $table->string('api_token',96)->nullable();

    Then use it in all other calls:

    {
    "token": "a358dafd256cb5b26a944eacc1c7428a97f6d1e079c3f1972696f1bea7fff099",
    "user": {
        "id": "3",
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "permissions": [],
        "activated": true,
        "activated_at": null,
        "last_login": "2014-03-08 11:17:48",
        "first_name": null,
        "last_name": null,
        "created_at": "2014-03-08 10:29:08",
        "updated_at": "2014-03-08 11:17:48",
        "api_token": "a358dafd256cb5b26a944eacc1c7428a97f6d1e079c3f1972696f1bea7fff099"
    }
}

    An article about this: http://rjv.im/post/78940780589/api-token-authentication-with-laravel-and-sentry