Laravel 5.4 Auth guard driver [customers] is not defined - php

Question

I had implemented custom auth in L5.2. I had followed those same steps but, I am not able to login/signup with custom auth. Following is the setup:
in auth.php i added customers custom auth:
'guards' => [
'web' => [
'driver' => 'session',
'provider' => 'users',
],
'api' => [
'driver' => 'token',
'provider' => 'users',
],
'customers' => [
'driver' => 'jwt',
'provider' => 'customers',
],
],
// Providers Section
providers' => [
'users' => [
'driver' => 'eloquent',
'model' => App\User::class,
],
'customers' => [
'driver' => 'eloquent',
'model' => App\Customer::class,
],
],
Then in routes/api.php I added following code after removing middleware from RouteServiceProvider.php
Route::group(['middleware' => 'customers'], function() {
Route::post('login', 'JwtAuth\LoginController#login'); //Had made new auth for JWT
}
When I hit this login, instead of Customer table, Auth is done from User table!!
I also tried with following code inside Controller\JwtAuth\LoginController.php :
public function login(Request $request)
{
$credentials = $request->only('email', 'password');
$customer = Auth::guard('customers')->attempt($credentials);
try {
// attempt to verify the credentials and create a token for the user
if (!$token = JWTAuth::attempt($credentials)) {
return response()->json(['error' => 'invalid_credentials'], 401);
}
} catch (JWTException $e) {
// something went wrong whilst attempting to encode the token
return response()->json(['error' => 'could_not_create_token'], 500);
}
// all good so return the token
return response()->json(compact('token'), Response::HTTP_OK);
}
This code throws error as:
Auth guard driver [customers] is not defined.
In my \App\Http\Kernel.php under protected $middlewareGroups i had added:
'api' => [
'throttle:60,1',
'bindings'
],
'customers' => [
'throttle:60:1',
'bindings'
]
Is there any change in token driver or custom driver. Or how to define custom Auth driver?
Any help/guidance would b much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Auth Guard driver is defined in config/auth.php
Like below
'guards' => [
'web' => [
'driver' => 'session',
'provider' => 'users',
],
'api' => [
'driver' => 'jwt',
'provider' => 'users',
],
'customers' => [
'driver' => 'jwt',
'provider' => 'customers',
],
],
and also add in providers like
'providers' => [
'users' => [
'driver' => 'eloquent',
'model' => App\Models\User::class,
],
'customers' => [
'driver' => 'eloquent',
'model' => App\Models\Customer::class,
],
// 'users' => [
// 'driver' => 'database',
// 'table' => 'users',
// ],
],

Answer 2

Try to clear the config cache php artisan config:clear or rebuild it php artisan config:cache

Answer 3

You will have to also extend your authentication by adding this to the boot() method of your app's AuthServiceProvider:
public function boot()
{
$this->registerPolicies();
Auth::extend('customers', function ($app, $name, array $config) {
return new CustomersGuard();
});
}
See the documentation for adding custom guards