Laravel 4 custom Auth - php

Question

First of all sorry about my english, I'll try to do my best.
Im new to Laravel, im trying to implement custom auth throught a SOAP WS, I declare new class that implement UserProviderInterface. I success on implement retrieveByCredentials and validateCredentials methods but since i dont have access to database or global users information i cant implement retrieveByID method. Is there any way to make custom Auth not based on users id's ?
I need:
- Login and validate user throught SOAP WS
- Store User Info returned by WS.
- Remember me functionality
- Secure routes based on logged user and level of access
- Logout
Implemented class:
<?php
namespace Spt\Common\Providers;
use Illuminate\Auth\UserProviderInterface;
use Illuminate\Auth\GenericUser;
use Illuminate\Auth\UserInterface;
class AuthUserProvider implements UserProviderInterface{
private $user;
public function __construct(){
$this->user = null;
}
public function retrieveByID($identifier){
return $this->user;
}
public function retrieveByCredentials(array $credentials){
$client = new \SoapClient('webserviceurl');
$res = $client->Validar_Cliente($credentials);
$res = $res->Validar_ClienteResult;
if($res->infoError->bError === true){
return;
}
$res->id = $res->id_cliente;
$user = new GenericUser((array) $res);
return $user;
}
public function validateCredentials(UserInterface $user, array $credentials){
//Assumed that if WS returned a User is validated
return true;
}
}
I think that re-implement UserProviderInterface its not the solution but i googled and not found other way
Any Idea?

Answer 1

You're almost done, apart from the fact that private variable $user of AuthUserProvider doesn't survive the current http request. If you cannot "retrieve by id" from your web service, I guess the only way is to store the entire user in the session - Laravel itself stores the user's id in the session and the fact that it stores only the id (not the entire user) is one of the reasons why a retrieveByID method is needed.
The following is only to clarify and is untested.
class AuthUserProvider implements UserProviderInterface {
public function retrieveByCredentials(array $credentials) {
$client = new \SoapClient('webserviceurl');
$res = $client->Validar_Cliente($credentials);
$res = $res->Validar_ClienteResult;
if($res->infoError->bError === true) {
return;
}
$res->id = $res->id_cliente;
Session::put('entireuser', $res);
$user = new GenericUser((array) $res);
return $user;
}
public function retrieveByID($identifier) {
$res = Session::get('entireuser');
return new GenericUser((array) $res);
}
// ...
}
If you can't retrieve by id from your web service, I guess you cannot either retrieve by remember token, so it may be impossible for you to implement the "remember me" functionality, unless you store part of users data in a second database (which at that point could be used in place of the session above).