Adding a sentinel guard allowing usage of the Auth:: facade and native auth related methods

Modules/User/Entities/Sentinel/User.php

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 namespace Modules\User\Entities\Sentinel;
 
+use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable as AuthenticatableContract;
+use Illuminate\Auth\Authenticatable;
 use Cartalyst\Sentinel\Laravel\Facades\Activation;
 use Cartalyst\Sentinel\Users\EloquentUser;
 use Laracasts\Presenter\PresentableTrait;
@@ -9,9 +11,9 @@ use Modules\User\Entities\UserInterface;
 use Modules\User\Entities\UserToken;
 use Modules\User\Presenters\UserPresenter;
 
-class User extends EloquentUser implements UserInterface
+class User extends EloquentUser implements UserInterface, AuthenticatableContract
 {
-    use PresentableTrait;
+    use PresentableTrait, Authenticatable;
 
     protected $fillable = [
         'email',

Modules/User/Guards/Sentinel.php

+<?php
+
+namespace Modules\User\Guards;
+
+use Cartalyst\Sentinel\Laravel\Facades\Sentinel as SentinelFacade;
+use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable;
+use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Guard as LaravelGuard;
+
+class Sentinel implements LaravelGuard
+{
+    /**
+     * Determine if the current user is authenticated.
+     * @return bool
+     */
+    public function check()
+    {
+        if (SentinelFacade::check()) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Determine if the current user is a guest.
+     * @return bool
+     */
+    public function guest()
+    {
+        return SentinelFacade::guest();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the currently authenticated user.
+     * @return \Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable|null
+     */
+    public function user()
+    {
+        return SentinelFacade::getUser();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the ID for the currently authenticated user.
+     * @return int|null
+     */
+    public function id()
+    {
+        if ($user = SentinelFacade::check()) {
+            return $user->id;
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Validate a user's credentials.
+     * @param  array $credentials
+     * @return bool
+     */
+    public function validate(array $credentials = [])
+    {
+        return SentinelFacade::validForCreation($credentials);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Set the current user.
+     * @param  \Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable $user
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function setUser(Authenticatable $user)
+    {
+        SentinelFacade::login($user);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Alias to set the current user.
+     * @param  \Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable $user
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function login(Authenticatable $user)
+    {
+        $this->setUser($user);
+    }
+
+    public function attempt(array $credentials, $remember = false)
+    {
+        return SentinelFacade::authenticate($credentials, $remember);
+    }
+}

Modules/User/Providers/UserServiceProvider.php

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 namespace Modules\User\Providers;
 
 use Cartalyst\Sentinel\Laravel\SentinelServiceProvider;
+use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
 use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
 use Modules\Core\Traits\CanPublishConfiguration;
 use Modules\User\Contracts\Authentication;
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ use Modules\User\Repositories\Eloquent\EloquentUserTokenRepository;
 use Modules\User\Repositories\RoleRepository;
 use Modules\User\Repositories\UserRepository;
 use Modules\User\Repositories\UserTokenRepository;
+use Modules\User\Guards\Sentinel;
 
 class UserServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
 {
@@ -72,6 +74,10 @@ class UserServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
         $this->publishConfig('user', 'config');
 
         $this->loadMigrationsFrom(__DIR__ . '/../Database/Migrations');
+
+        Auth::extend('sentinel-guard', function () {
+            return new Sentinel();
+        });
     }
 
     /**

config/auth.php

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ return [
 
     'guards' => [
         'web' => [
-            'driver' => 'session',
+            'driver' => 'sentinel-guard',
             'provider' => 'users',
         ],