get loggedIn user in View Composer not working(Sentinel - Laravel 5.4)

Question

I am using Sentinel in Laravel 5.4. What I am trying to do is: get logged user detail but Sentinel::getUser() returns null . For this process, I have seen this instruction in this answer . I am following using View Composer method.

Steps I have done

I have created a file ViewComposerServiceProvider inside Providers folder. It looks like:

public function boot()
    {
        $user      = Sentinel::getUser(); //<<-- main error: dd($user) returns empty
       $userDetail = UsersDetail::where('user_id', $user->id)->firstOrFail();

       if ( is_null ($userDetail) ) {
           $userDetail = new UsersDetail;
       }

       view()->composer('backend.*', function($view) {
           $view->with('userDetail', $userDetail);
           //$view->with('userDetail', 'Test'); //this works fine
       });
    }

Then, I register this provider in config/app.php Providers array as App\\Providers\\ViewComposerServiceProvider::class,

When, I pass other variables in userDetail , it's working perfectly. But, I cannot get the logged in user detail. Am I missing something?

Following the first solution from this answer also seems not working since, construct are run prior to the Middleware. Any help please.

Answer 1

Go to app\\Providers\\AppServiceProvider.php Then your serviceProvider.php boot method like below

public function boot()
{

 $user      = Sentinel::getUser(); //<<-- main error: dd($user) returns empty
       $userDetail = UsersDetail::where('user_id', $user->id)->firstOrFail();

       if ( is_null ($userDetail) ) {
           $userDetail = new UsersDetail;
       }

    View::composer('userDetail', function($view) use($userDetail ) {
    $view->with('userDetail ',$userDetail );
    });
}

Then your userDetail.blade.php you can access userDetail data like this

{{ $userDetail }}