laravel calling route from a controller - php

Question

I am writing an API at the moment in Laravel, and using passport. My client will consume it's own API, so I am using personal access in Passport.
I am not wanting to show my oauth route and grant id, or secret in the POST request so I have created a route that sits the user posts too to login, and then deals with send a POST request to the oauth/token route, like below,
protected function authenticate(Request $request) {
//return $request->input();
//return Response::json($this->client);
$email = $request->input('username');
$password = $request->input('password');
$request->request->add([
'username' => $email,
'password' => $password,
'grant_type' => 'password',
'client_id' => $this->client->id,
'client_secret' => $this->client->secret,
'scope' => '*'
]);
$tokenRequest = Request::create(
env('APP_URL').'/oauth/token',
'post'
);
return Route::dispatch($tokenRequest)->getContent();
}
My problem is that my authentication returns 200 irrespective of whether the oauth login was successful. Is there a way to fire a route from a controller and return that http code for that rather than the method it was called from http response?

Answer 1

this should fix the problem.
$data = [
'grant_type'=> 'password',
'client_id'=> 99,
'client_secret'=> 'hgfhfhjnhnjnjnjnj',
'username'=> $request->username,
'password'=> $request->password,
'scopes'=> '[*]'
];
$request = Request::create('/oauth/token', 'POST', $data);
return app()->handle($request);