How to get separated auth for admin and user models in Adonis JS

You can configure multiple authentication by adding new auth in your config/auth.ts in guards section.

Example

config/auth.ts :

const authConfig: AuthConfig = {
  guard: 'api_users',
  guards: {
    // User API token authentication
    api_users: {
      driver: 'oat',
      tokenProvider: {
        driver: 'database',
        table: 'user_api_tokens' // API token table - don't forget to create migration
      },
      provider: {
        driver: 'lucid',
        identifierKey: 'id',
        uids: ['name'],
        model: () => import('App/Models/User')
      }
    },
    // Client API token authentication
    api_clients: {
      driver: 'oat',
      tokenProvider: {
        driver: 'database',
        table: 'client_api_tokens' // API token table - don't forget to create migration
      },
      provider: {
        driver: 'lucid',
        identifierKey: 'id',
        uids: ['email'],
        model: () => import('App/Models/Client')
      }
    }
  }
}

Switch authentication :

public async myCustomControllerFunction ({ auth, response }: HttpContextContract, next: () => Promise<void>) {
    const clientAuth = auth.use('api_clients')
    // ...
}

You can create new guards or providers by register them inside the contracts/auth.ts file to inform the TypeScript static compiler.

https://docs.adonisjs.com/guides/auth/introduction#configuring-new-guardsproviders

Example:

  .....
  interface GuardsList {
    .....
    apiUsers: {
      implementation: OATGuardContract<'user', 'apiUsers'>,
      config: OATGuardConfig<'user'>,
    }
    .....
  }
  .....