Passport Client Credentials Grant usage

NOTE currently this only works for Laravel 9 and Passport 11 and newer.

##Install Passport

First of all make sure to have Passport installed as described in the Laravel documentation.

##Extend the Client model

After installing the Passport package we need to extend Passports Client model. The extended Client model should look like something as shown below.

use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Access\Authorizable as AuthorizableContract;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\Access\Authorizable;
use Laravel\Passport\Client as BaseClient;
use Spatie\Permission\Traits\HasRoles;

class Client extends BaseClient implements AuthorizableContract
{
    use HasRoles;
    use Authorizable;

    public $guard_name = 'api';
    
    // or
    
    public function guardName()
    {
        return 'api';
    }
}

You need to extend the Client model to make it possible to add the required traits and properties/ methods. The extended Client should either provide a $guard_name property or a guardName() method. They should return a string that matches the configured guard name for the passport driver.

To tell Passport to use this extended Client, add the rule below to the boot method of your App\Providers\AuthServiceProvider class.

Passport::useClientModel(\App\Models\Client::class); // Use the namespace of your extended Client.

##Middleware

All middleware provided by this package work with the Client.

Do make sure that you only wrap your routes in the client middleware and not the auth:api middleware as well. Wrapping routes in the auth:api middleware currently does not work for the Client Credentials Grant.

##Config

Finally, update the config file as well. Setting use_passport_client_credentials to true will make sure that the right checks are performed.

// config/permission.php
'use_passport_client_credentials' => true,