Laravel 5 / Spark - Pass data from form request to controller

Working in Laravel Spark and have a custom API endpoint that checks a user credentials but doesn't log them in, just returns the user data.

I have a form request that checks the email and password for being required and then I use

withValidator()

to run some more validation on the password.

public function rules()
{
    return [
        'email' => 'required|email|exists:users',
        'password' => 'required'
    ];
}

public function withValidator($validator)
{
    $validator->after(function ($validator) {

        $user = User::where('email', $this->email)->first();

        if ( $user && !Hash::check($this->password, $user->password) ) {
            $validator->errors()->add('password', 'Incorrect password');
        } else {
            // Pass the user to the controller
        }

    });
}

In my controller I want to be able to return the user, but I dont want to run through the process of checking the hash etc.

I would simply like to be able to do:

return $request->user

Or similar.

Is there a way to do this?

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