JWT payload does not contain the required claims

Question

I needed a token that will never expire i.e it will have a lifetime validity. So, I changed the following in jwt.php file in config folder.

'ttl' => env('JWT_TTL', null),

But after this action I started getting erros saying: Tymon\JWTAuth\Exceptions\TokenInvalidException: JWT payload does not contain the required claims in file apiTest/vendor/tymon/jwt-auth/src/Validators/PayloadValidator.php on line 65.

Answer 1

This issue is occuring because required_claimsis expecting the exp. So just remove exp key from your config/jwt.php's required_claims array like.

    'required_claims' => [
    'iss',
    'iat',
    // 'exp',  
    'nbf',
    'sub',
    'jti',
],

In my case I just commented the exp line and this will solve the problem.

A issue was created on github regarding this issue. You can find it here. Here you will get solution to this problem and similar problems.