Laravel Sanctum default model customization - php

Question

I use in my Laravel application `MongoDB as a database driver using composer package:
https://github.com/jenssegers/laravel-mongodb
By default, Laravel models extend Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model class.
But when I use MongoDB then my models must extend the Jenssegers\Mongodb\Eloquent\Model` class instead of default Laravel class.
How I can now replace Laravel Sanctum default extending model class Laravel\Sanctum\PersonalAccessToken to Jenssegers\Mongodb\Eloquent\Model.
Example
<?php
namespace Laravel\Sanctum;
// use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; // Replace this class
use Jenssegers\Mongodb\Eloquent\Model; // To this class
use Laravel\Sanctum\Contracts\HasAbilities;
class PersonalAccessToken extends Model implements HasAbilities
{
// sanctum model
}
Now I can do this inside the vendor folder but I think it's the incorrect way. How to solve this problem correctly?

Answer 1

What you need to do is create a custom PersonalAccessToken (you can just copy the original one "Laravel\Sanctum\PersonalAccessToken.php")
then just change
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model
for
use Jenssegers\Mongodb\Eloquent\Model
and finally in \Providers\AuthServiceProvider
you must add in the boot function
public function boot()
{
$this->registerPolicies();
Sanctum::usePersonalAccessTokenModel(PersonalAccessToken::class);
}

Answer 2

in my search I found this package:
Laravel-Sanctum-Mongo
It can serve you, basically it is just installing
Or
Step 1:
Copy this Model \Laravel\Sanctum\PersonalAccessToken and paste in your custom model \App\Models\Sanctum\PersonalAccessToken
Step 2:
Find the use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; and replace with use Jenssegers\Mongodb\Eloquent\Model;
Step 3:
In the App\Providers\AppServiceProvider add this:
// Loader Alias
$loader = AliasLoader::getInstance();
// SANCTUM CUSTOM PERSONAL-ACCESS-TOKEN
$loader->alias(\Laravel\Sanctum\PersonalAccessToken::class, \App\Models\Sanctum\PersonalAccessToken::class);
and Ready, work for me

Answer 3

I had also to add in the vendor folder NewAccessToken file this:
use App\Models\Sanctum\PersonalAccessToken;

Answer 4

As per this issue sanctum only support extending the default model and are probably not going to consider adding an interface.
But we can trick autoloader into loading our class instead of the default one.
Here is how to do it:
Step 1: Copy the /vendor/laravel/sanctum/src/PersonalAccessToken.php file to /app/overrides/PersonalAccessToken.php
Step 2: Edit the /app/overrides/PersonalAccessToken.php and replace use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; with use Jenssegers\Mongodb\Eloquent\Model;
Step 3: Edit your composer.json file and edit the autoload section to look like the following:
"autoload": {
"exclude-from-classmap": ["vendor\\laravel\\sanctum\\src\\PersonalAccessToken.php"],
"psr-4": {
"App\\": "app/",
"Database\\Factories\\": "database/factories/",
"Database\\Seeders\\": "database/seeders/",
"Laravel\\Sanctum\\": "app/overrides/"
}
},
Step 4: run composer dump-autoload
This fixed my issue in the windows machine but the solution might not work for different OS because I've not tried them all. (Please comment your os name if this worked in your os)
Credits to https://github.com/laravel/sanctum/issues/263