Laravel: Create middleware for Sociailite Auth

Question

I'm using JavaScript to receive an access token to the user facebook account.

When I get the token, I send a request to the server with the token to get information about the user using Socialite.

$user = Socialite::driver('facebook')->userFromToken($request->token);
        return $user->getName();

Now I'm trying to group API calls that only authenticated user can make, for example /my-profile, my-data, etc...

The middleware purpose is to check if the user is authenticated for a group of API calls instead typing the same condition in all methods:

if ($user->getName()) {
...Execute...
}

Any idea how I can place the following condition for a list of routes for autehnticated users?

My condition is simple:

$user = Socialite::driver('facebook')->userFromToken($request->token);
if ($user->getName()) {
return true;
}
else { return false; }

Answer 1

Okay, First create the middleware:

php artisan make:middleware name_of_your_middleware

After that, inside the middleware file that has been created:

public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
         $user = Socialite::driver('facebook')->userFromToken($request->token);

         if ($user->getName()) {
           return $next($request);
         }
         return redirect('some_other_route_for_error');            
    } 

Then assign the middleware to the routes middelware in app/Http/Kernel.php

protected $routeMiddleware = [
     //.......
    'name_of_your_middleware' => \Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\Authenticate::class,
];

In your Route file (api.php):

Route::group(['middleware'=>['name_of_your_middleware']],function(){
    //your routes
});

Hope it helps :)