I'm stuck on something which I'm pretty sure is quite basic.. but somehow I can't get it to work.
I created a middleware to set the locale of my website depending on the user's choice (his choice is registered in the database under 'locale' column). What I do is that I check is user is logged-in, if he is I use his locale, if not I default to English.
For some reason, my middleware never "sees" the user as logged-in and always defaults to English. I've output the result of Auth::check() to a log and indeed this always returns false, even if the user is actually logged-in.
I suppose this has to do with this Middleware being executed before the Auth one.. I've tried to change the priority in the Kernel file but that still doesn't work.. any idea?
My middleware
namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use Closure;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
class SetLocale {
public function handle($request, Closure $next) {
if(Auth::check()) {
$locale = Auth::user()->locale;
} else {
$locale = 'en';
}
\App::setLocale($locale);
return $next($request);
}
}
My route ('auth' is the default auth middleware, 'checkProjectPermission:read' checks if the user logged in has permission to access this project)
Route::prefix('client')->middleware(['auth','checkRoomPermission:read'])->group(function() {
Route::get('{project_id}/checklist', 'ProjectController@accessChecklist')->name('checklist');
}
My Kernel.php file :
protected $middleware = [
\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\CheckForMaintenanceMode::class,
\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\ValidatePostSize::class,
\App\Http\Middleware\TrimStrings::class,
\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\ConvertEmptyStringsToNull::class,
\App\Http\Middleware\TrustProxies::class,
\App\Http\Middleware\SetLocale::class
];
protected $middlewarePriority = [
\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
\Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
\Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\Authenticate::class,
\Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\AuthenticateWithBasicAuth::class,
\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\AuthenticateSession::class,
\Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
\Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\Authorize::class,
\App\Http\Middleware\SetLocale::class
];
Thanks
The problem is that you're adding SetLocale
to your global middleware. The global
middleware does not start a session
and therefore you have no access to session based data - such as the user.
If you take a look at the web
middleware provided by laravel (cleaned up for brevity)
protected $middlewareGroups = [
'web' => [
EncryptCookies::class,
AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
CreateFreshApiToken::class,
StartSession::class,
ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
VerifyCsrfToken::class,
SubstituteBindings::class
]
]
You'll see why the any middleware added to web
middleware will have access to the auth
class, because it injects StartSession
.
If you want to access session-based-data, then you'll need to make sure StartSession
is booted.
DO NOT just add StartSession
to your global middleware or you're going to have a bad time. Instead, add it to your auth
middleware, and add the SetLocale
after StartSession
.
Edit
Note that if you're using Web Middleware
you must add SetLocale
to that Middleware Group
as well.
The priority is only a nsort
where it reorders the middleware
applied to a current request based on the existence of the middleware in the middlewarePriority
array.
Simplified: If the middleware is not in the middleware group for the route request, the middleware priority means nothing.