Session not working in Laravel API

Question

Usually I save temporary data/array inside session while working with Website (Non API).

Today I want to do the same thing (save temporary data/array inside session) with Laravel API.

So here is my route.

Route::middleware(['auth:api', 'isMember'])->group(function () {

  Route::get('createSession', function (){
    $a = Session::put('example', 'this is example session.');
    return "session created";
  });

  Route::get('getSession', function () {
    return Session::get('example');
  });

});

When I visit /api/createSession it return session created, but when I visit /api/getSession it return nothing.

So how do I work with session inside API?

What I think why this not work because API use Token based authentication instead of Session based Authentication, refer to config/auth.php Authentication Guards section.

If work with session inside API is consider as bad practice, What is your suggestion to save temporary data/array inside API for shared hosting?

What I have tried so far is save data/array in Storage::disk(local) but I don't think it best practice.

Thanks in advance.

PS: I will use Session to store temporary data about Cart

Answer 1

Middleware api did not include StartSession middleware, so you can not get the session. Check it here: https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/master/app/Http/Kernel.php#L33

You can add middleware "web" to your route or add \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class, to middleware api but I'm not recommended it. APIs should not use session.

Hope that it can help you.