DV2017 / lectures-api

A fully tested (in postman) Laravel 5.7 API with simple authentication without passport

Lectures

Laravel 5.7 API WITH AUTHENTICATION

This application makes use of simple authentication and authorization without Passport. The application can be tested with Postman.

Steps to making this application work:

• Create database 'lectures' in mysql with phpmyadmin
• In the command line: composer install
• php artisan migrate
• php artisan db:seed
• php artisan serve: at 127.0.0.1:8000

Testing in Postman

• POST: 127.0.0.1:8000/api/register
Headers:- Content-Type: application/json
Body (choose option 'form-data'):-
name: John Doe
email: [e-mail],
password: password,
password_confirmation: password

• POST: 127.0.0.1:8000/api/login
Headers:- Content-Type: application/json
Body (choose option 'form-data'):-
email: [e-mail],
password: password,
Note: The JSON response gives an api_token. Keep this at hand. This is needed to logout.
• Retrieve data from the database using GET: 127.0.0.1:8000/api/lectures
Headers:- Authorization: Bearer api_token. (Insert the login api_token here.)
This will list all the data in the database table 'lectures'.
If there is an exception, a simple user friendly error message is returned as response.
• Finally logout using POST: 127.0.0.1:8000/api/logout
Headers:- Authorization: Bearer api_token. (Insert the login api_token here.)

That's it.

Based on article https://www.toptal.com/laravel/restful-laravel-api-tutorial. I adapted this tto suit Laravel 5.7.