Testing API call in laravel controller/view - php

Question

I'm testing an API call that I have working in Postman and other interfaces built over the API, but I'm trying to actually get my return values within my laravel site.
Should be simple enough, I made a very bare service file that uses guzzle to get to the API url, and I have a function in there for logging in using a test email, password and client ID (all of which work in the api interface such as Postman)
I'm calling the class and function inside my authController and then returning the function call in the view, then dumping that inside the view.
However, currently I'm getting null on my page dump.
Is there something I'm missing here, possibly in my service file. I don't think there should be anything passed here, but maybe I'm overlooking something more obvious.
Authorize.php
<?php
namespace App\Services\restAPI;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
use GuzzleHttp\Exception\ClientException;
use GuzzleHttp\Exception\ServerException;
use Session;
use Exception;
class AuthService
{
protected $baseurl;
protected $guzzleClient;
public function __construct() {
$this->baseurl = config('http://ip.address');
$this->baseurl = rtrim($this->baseurl, '/') . '/'; // ensure trailing slash
$this->guzzleClient = new \GuzzleHttp\Client(
['verify' => config('app.ca_pem_file'),
'headers' => [
'Event-ID' => ACCESS_EVENT_ID
],
'base_uri' => $this->baseurl
]
);
}
public function loginGetToken(){
$password = "password";
$email = "test#thisAPI.com";
$client_id = "0";
$payload = (object)[
'password'=>(string)$password,
'email'=>(string)$email
];
$retval = $this->post('login/?client_id='.$client_id,$payload);
return $retval;
}
private function post($endpoint,$payload){
$result = $this->guzzleClient->request('POST', $endpoint, ['json'=>$payload]);
$body = $result->getBody();
return json_decode($body);
}
}
AuthController.php
use Redirect;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Services\restAPI\AuthService;
class AuthController extends Controller
{
public function login(Request $request)
{
$authService = new AuthService();
$login = $authService->loginGetToken();
return redirect(route('auth.login'))
->with('login', $login)
}
login.blade.php
<?php
dd($login);
?>

Answer 1

Since you are redirecting, the data is not directly available in the view as a variable. It should be in the session though, so you can try this in your view:
dd(session('login'));
https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/redirects#redirecting-with-flashed-session-data