how to check laravel policy authorization in laravel request class?

Question

I am using policies in my application. And for example, one user has a role customer-role. This customer-role has the customer.view permission. and in my customer policy I am checking like this.

public function view(User $user)
    {
        return $user->hasAccess('customer.view');
    }

And from getcustomer request class:

public function authorize()
    {
        return Gate::allows('view', 'App\Models\Customer') ? true : false;
    }

But this always returns false. Please someone help me here as am new to Laravel.

Answer 1

I could solve this issue. The problem was I've written a before() method in AuthServiceProvider as below:

Gate::before(function ($user) {
            if ($user->inRole('admin')) {
                return true;
            }
            else {
                return false;
           }
        });

As this is returning false for non-admin users, it is not checking any other methods. So I had to remove the else condition from this before() method and now it is working.

This article was helpful for me. https://blog.karmacomputing.co.uk/debugging-laravel-policies/