Building Bagisto Android Application

I think this is my first piece here, so bare with me.

Where do I start? Oh yeah! The official documentation suck if you are trying to build a meaningful android application powered by Bagisto. I will get to that later in the future.

To future me, do the following for jwt to work:

php artisan jwt:secret

php artisan cache:clear

php artisan config:clear

On the config/app.php, ensure that this line is there under providers:

Tymon\JWTAuth\Providers\LaravelServiceProvider::class,

Then under aliases have:

'JWTAuth' => Tymon\JWTAuth\Facades\JWTAuth::class,
'JWTFactory' => Tymon\JWTAuth\Facades\JWTFactory::class

In the app/Http/Kernel.php under $routeMiddleware ensure you have:

'auth.jwt' => \Tymon\JWTAuth\Http\Middleware\Authenticate::class,
'auth-renew.jwt' => \Tymon\JWTAuth\Http\Middleware\AuthenticateAndRenew::class,
'jwt.refresh' => \Tymon\JWTAuth\Http\Middleware\RefreshToken::class,

Next, hunt the API package from the routes you want protected by the api middleware and add the middleware on the group:

Route::middleware(['api'])->prefix('checkout')->group(function ($router) {

You know what? You really don’t need all that. The default setting for Bagisto just work. There is no need of Authorization API header at all.

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All you need is during the login process have your API endpoint as such:

https://{your-domain}/api/customer/login?token=true

Save the API token.

For other request that require the users to be authenticated just include the token as part of the request body… Like this:

cartItem.put("token",sharedPref.getCustomerApiToken());

That’s all folk.