EngineManager doesn't honor scout.identify configuration

[renanbr]

• Laravel version: 9.48.0
• Algolia Scout Extended version: 2.1.0
• Algolia Client Version: 3.3.2
• Language Version: 8.1.20

Description

Algolia analytics dashboard doesn't recognise user searches because the application doesn't send the X-Algolia-UserToken header when performing searches even when configuring SCOUT_IDENTIFY env var to true.

Steps To Reproduce

• Make sure scout.identify configuration is true
• Perform some searches with an authenticated user
• Check latest requests headers in Algolia dashboard

[Shkeats]

I've just run into this issue too. Relevant code is in vendor/laravel/scout/src/EngineManager.php defaultAlgoliaHeaders() method but it never gets executed.

Scout docs https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/scout#identifying-users

[szhorvath]

Does anyone know a workaround for the issue?

[renanbr]

Does anyone know a workaround for the issue?

We override the EngineManager with a housemade class overriding the createAlgoliaDriver() method.

This approach made us able to fix scout.algolia.*_timeout configuration as well.