Yii2 Rest Authentication Bearer Post Data missing

Question

I\'am working on a REST API. Therefore I prepared a function which sends the authentication data via curl to the REST Server. I\'ve implemented two authentication options. T

Answer 1

After lots of hours I found the problem and the solution for this problem.

The problem is:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json' , $authorization));

Using 'Content-Type: application/json' results in loosing the POST data information.

Solution for this is:

change

'Content-Type: application/json' 

to

'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

Answer 2

You can use yii2's HttpBasicAuth authenticator behaviour for bearer token auth.

use yii\filters\auth\HttpBasicAuth;

public function behaviors()
{
    $behaviors = parent::behaviors();
    $behaviors['authenticator'] = [
        'class' => HttpBasicAuth::className(),
    ];
    return $behaviors;
}

Authentication

For the solution you were suggesting, you should use json request parser.

'request' => [
  'parsers' => [
    'application/json' => 'yii\web\JsonParser',
  ]
]

JsonParser