How can i use this package with $keyType = 'string' in my user model.

[felix-exon]

I am using keycloak as a auth provider which results in my user model having a string key.
This seems not to be possible easily as i have to manually alter the migrations.
Why is this not supported out of the box ?

[ousid]

@felix-exon

Can you give me an example, on how you're implementing it in your app?

I didn't experience working with this type of system, but I think it's a Laravel authentication related, no?

[felix-exon]

Hi @ousid,

yes, it is just a custom Laravel Socialite Provider (https://github.com/SocialiteProviders/Keycloak). Keycloak uses a guid as the key.

Simply I add $keyType = 'string'; to my User Model.

It seems to work if I change your migrations manually to

...
$table->foreignIdFor(User::class)
...

Maybe this could be solved by specifying the User-Model in the config file and then using foreignIdFor for that setting.
I made it work, but it was some manual effort.

[ousid]

I see @felix-exon

Thanks for the details.

I'll try to replicate the logic, to let the devs specify the models out of the box in the config file.

There was a PR for that case (#40) but there are failed tests, and the creator didn't fix the failed tests, so I had to close the PR as incomplete.

Feel free to open a PR, to match your case, and maybe to help people out with similar situations.

Thanks!