Laravel - access session variables in API

I have a simple application and I want to be able to change language. In my main controller I have:

session(['applocale' => 'en']);
// $request->session()->put('applocale','en');

I know that these two lines are the same but I want to be sure that they bot does not work.

Then I have API method:

public function switchLang(Request $request, $lang)
{
    error_log("Current language is: " . session('applocale'));
    error_log("Current language is: " . $request->session()->get('applocale'));
}

And here error_log shows nothing.

I'm following this thread: Laravel 5.3 - How to add Sessions to API without CSRF? And in Debugbar I can see that my API function has hit middleware 'sessions' but session variables are not there.

That's how it's look like my 'seasons' middleware:

'sessions' => [
    \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
]

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

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