[SOLUTION] Lumen Authentication: unknown index: provider

Lumen Authentication: unknown index: provider

I'm using Lumen for the first time and trying to setup token authentication. After following all of the instructions in the lumen documentation, I'm getting the following error when trying to access a page;

ErrorException in AuthManager.php line 152:
Undefined index: provider
in AuthManager.php line 152
at Application->Laravel\Lumen\Concerns\{closure}('8', 'Undefined index: provider', '/home/webdev/public_html/project/vendor/illuminate/auth/AuthManager.php', '152', array('name' => 'api', 'config' => array('driver' => 'token'))) in AuthManager.php line 152
at AuthManager->createTokenDriver('api', array('driver' => 'token')) in AuthManager.php line 92
at AuthManager->resolve('api') in AuthManager.php line 70
at AuthManager->guard(null) in Authenticate.php line 38
at Authenticate->handle(object(Request), object(Closure))
at call_user_func_array(array(object(Authenticate), 'handle'), array(object(Request), object(Closure))) in Pipeline.php line 124
at Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline\{closure}(object(Request))
at call_user_func(object(Closure), object(Request)) in Pipeline.php line 32
at Pipeline->Laravel\Lumen\Routing\{closure}(object(Request))
at call_user_func(object(Closure), object(Request)) in Pipeline.php line 103
at Pipeline->then(object(Closure)) in RoutesRequests.php line 621
at Application->sendThroughPipeline(array('App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate'), object(Closure)) in RoutesRequests.php line 382
at Application->dispatch(object(Request)) in RoutesRequests.php line 327
at Application->run(object(Request)) in index.php line 31

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The steps I've taken are;

Uncommented the following in 'bootstrap/app.php'

$app->register(App\Providers\AuthServiceProvider::class);

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Also added this line to 'bootstrap/app.php'

$app->middleware([
    App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate::class
]);

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I've setup the database connection details in '/env', and I've created a user table which contains an 'api_token' field. Here's the User model;

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Auth\Authenticatable;
use Laravel\Lumen\Auth\Authorizable;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable as AuthenticatableContract;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Access\Authorizable as AuthorizableContract;

/**
 * @property int $id
 * @property bool $active
 * @property string $api_token
 * @property string $full_name
 * @property string $email
 * @property string $username
 * @property string $password
 * @property string $avatar
 * @property string $background
 * @property string $date_last_login
 * @property string $facebook_id
 * @property string $facebook_token
 * @property string $twitter_id
 * @property string $twitter_token
 */
class User extends Model implements AuthenticatableContract, AuthorizableContract
{
    use Authenticatable, Authorizable;

    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $fillable = [
        'full_name', 'email',
    ];

    /**
     * The attributes excluded from the model's JSON form.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $hidden = [
        'password',
    ];
}

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I have made no changes to the Authentication Middleware, and the AuthServiceProvider also remains exactly the same with no changes.

I've done my best to trace through the lumen code to see where 'provider' is supposed to be set, but I can't seem to find where the issue is.

Can anyone help?

return [ 'defaults' => [ 'guard' => env('AUTH_GUARD', 'api'), ], 'guards' => [ 'api' => ['driver' => 'token'], ], 'providers' => [ ], 'passwords' => [ // ], ];

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SheppardDigitalAuthor Commented: 2016-02-23

As a further pointer, I found in /config/auth.php the following reference to setting up a provider;

It seems at least that I need to setup the configuration to setup 'eloquent' as a provider for auth, however I can't find any documentation that tells me how to do this in the configuration file?

I seem to have resolved this by tracing through the code to determine what lumen was expecting.

I copied the /vendor/laravel/config/ folder to the root of my project, deleted all .php files in the new folder except the auth.php file.

I changed the guards section of the file to;

'guards' => [
        'api' => ['driver' => 'token', 'provider' => 'api'],
    ],

and the providers section to;

'providers' => [
        'api' => ['driver' => 'eloquent', 'model' => 'App\User'],
    ],

This seems to resolve the issue. It's a shame this doesn't just work out of the box and that the documentation doesn't seem to tell you that you need to do something like this.

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Lumen Authentication: unknown index: provider

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