Laravel API Test with Sanctum Authentication
Simple demonstration on sanctum authentication in laravel API
Available Methods
- get:
api/products - post:
api/products - post:
api/products/id - put:
api/products
Workflow
-
Register using
api/register- inside body put
name, email, password, password_confirmation - on headers select
Key as Acceptwithvalue as application/json - You will get token on response, use the token to post, update and delete data
- inside body put
-
To login simply put your credentials as
{
"email": "test@email.com",
"password": "password"
}
- You will get the token on response use it to post put and delete data
Post, Update & Delete data
- After register or login save the token on request and pass the token as Bearer Token, Each and every time.
To Post
- post request
# Add the token inside the authentication which
# you will get at the time of register or login
api/products/
{
"name": "Sample name",
"slug": "sample-slug",
"description": "Sample description",
"price": 12345
}
To Update
- put request
# Add the token inside the authentication which
# you will get at the time of register or login
api/products/id
{
"name": "Sample name",
"slug": "sample-slug",
"description": "Updated Sample description",
}
To delete
- delete request
api/products/id
- Just send request specifying the product id with the token
Log out and delete token
- post request
- To log out we just need to pass the bearer token, the token is enough to identify the user
api/logout
Full API list
+--------+----------+----------------------------+------+------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| Domain | Method | URI | Name | Action | Middleware |
+--------+----------+----------------------------+------+------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| | GET|HEAD | / | | Closure | web |
| | POST | api/login | | App\Http\Controllers\AuthController@login | api |
| | POST | api/logout | | App\Http\Controllers\AuthController@logout | api |
| | | | | | App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate:sanctum |
| | GET|HEAD | api/products | | App\Http\Controllers\ProductController@index | api |
| | POST | api/products | | App\Http\Controllers\ProductController@store | api |
| | | | | | App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate:sanctum |
| | GET|HEAD | api/products/search/{name} | | App\Http\Controllers\ProductController@search | api |
| | GET|HEAD | api/products/{id} | | App\Http\Controllers\ProductController@show | api |
| | PUT | api/products/{id} | | App\Http\Controllers\ProductController@update | api |
| | | | | | App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate:sanctum |
| | DELETE | api/products/{id} | | App\Http\Controllers\ProductController@destroy | api |
| | | | | | App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate:sanctum |
| | POST | api/register | | App\Http\Controllers\AuthController@register | api |
| | GET|HEAD | api/user | | Closure | api |
| | | | | | App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate:api |
| | GET|HEAD | sanctum/csrf-cookie | | Laravel\Sanctum\Http\Controllers\CsrfCookieController@show | web |
+--------+----------+----------------------------+------+------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------+