Consuming my own Laravel API

Question

I'm developing a Laravel 4 app that will make the same CRUD operations on my dataset available through a JSON REST API and a Web UI. It seems that to prevent breaking the DRY principle that my UI should consume my own API by routing all requests from the UI back to the API. I'm unsure though about the best approach to making this work. Presumably I would have separate UI and API controllers and somehow route the requests through. Or should I be looking at a different approach altogether?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you are looking for using passport login api internally, then you need to add the parameters to original request:

    protected function manualLogin(Request $request)
    {
        $email = $request->input('email');
        $password = $request->input('password');

        $request->request->add([
        'username' => $email,
        'password' => $password,
        'grant_type' => 'password',
        'client_id' => $clientID,
        'client_secret' => $clientSecret,
        'scope' => '*']);

    $newRequest = Request::create('/oauth/token', 'post');

    return Route::dispatch($newRequest)->getContent();
}