RuntimeException - Session store not set on request - Laravel Socialite - Facebook

Question

I'm using Laravel 5.7 and Laravel/Socialite 3.1.

I want to login using a Facebook app I just configured for this project.

These are the main files I have configured for this:

/.env

...
FACEBOOK_CLIENT_ID=***
FACEBOOK_CLIENT_SECRET=***
FACEBOOK_CALLBACK_URL=http://localhost:8000/auth/facebook/callback

/config/services.php

<?php

return [
    ...
    'facebook' => [
        'client_id' => env('FACEBOOK_CLIENT_ID'),
        'client_secret' => env('FACEBOOK_CLIENT_SECRET'),
        'redirect' => env('FACEBOOK_CALLBACK_URL'),

    ],
];

/routes/api.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

...

Route::get('auth/facebook', 'SocialiteController@redirectToProviderFacebook');
Route::get('auth/facebook/callback', 'SocialiteController@handleProviderCallbackFacebook');

/app/Http/Controllers/SocialiteController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Socialite;

class SocialiteController extends Controller
{
    public function redirectToProviderFacebook()
    {
        return Socialite::driver('facebook')->redirect();
    }

    public function handleProviderCallbackFacebook()
    {
        $user = Socialite::driver('facebook')->user();
        print_r($user->token);
    }
}

My problem is that for some reason I get the error:

RuntimeException
Session store not set on request.

as you can see on the following image:

I don't want to use sessions on this project at all. I just want to get the token from Facebook on the callback inside: function handleProviderCallbackFacebook().

Any idea on how to solve this issue?

Thanks!

Answer 1

From the Socialite documentation

The stateless method may be used to disable session state verification. This is useful when adding social authentication to an API:

return Socialite::driver('google')->stateless()->user();