Device-Authentication Handling Package for Laravel

This adds device authentication handling capability on a laravel backend.

How to Install

Add the private repository in your composer.json file, and run composer update

	"repositories": [
        {
            "type":"git",
            "url":"https://github.com/Wickramanayaka/DeviceAuthentication.git"
        }
    ]

Add the repository to the required list on composer.json composer require chamal/deviceauthentication

In config\app.php, add the service provider and the Facade. Add to the list of providers: Chamal\DeviceAuthentication\DeviceAuthenticationServiceProvider::class

Add to the list of aliases: 'DeviceAuthentication' => Chamal\DeviceAuthentication\Facades\DeviceAuthentication::class,

Migrations

Currently the tokens are stored in the database, you will need to run the migrations

php artisan migrate --path=vendor/chamal/deviceauthentication/src/migrations

How to Run

After installation, you can get, set, validate and discard the token at any point of the application.

    Authentication::getToken($device_id);
    Authentication::setToken($device_id);
    Authentication::validateToken($token);
    Authentication::discardToken($device_id,$token=0);

Use device authentication to validate token as a middle-ware, add below line to kernel.php

\Chamal\DeviceAuthentication\Middleware\DeviceAuth::class,