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kyuib's avatar
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Call to undefined method Illuminate\Auth\GenericUser::hasRole()

I tried to implement multiple roles user login, but for some reason, the function hasRole() in my User model is undefined

LoginController.php

public function authenticate(Request $request): RedirectResponse
    {
        $credentials = $request->validate([
            'email' => ['required', 'email'],
            'password' => ['required']
        ]);

        if (Auth::attempt($credentials)) {
            $request->session()->regenerate();

            $user = Auth::user();
            if ($user->hasRole('admin')) {
                return view('admin.dashboard');
            }

            return redirect()->intended('/user/dashboard');
        }

        return back()->withErrors([
            'email' => 'The provided credentials do not match our records.',
        ])->onlyInput('email');
    }

auth.php

'providers' => [
        'users' => [
            'driver' => 'eloquent',
            'model' => env('AUTH_MODEL', App\Models\User::class),
            'table' => 'users',
        ],

        // 'users' => [
        //     // 'driver' => 'database',
        //     'driver' => 'eloquent',
        //     'table' => 'users',
        // ],
    ],

App\Models\User.php

and App\Models\Role.php

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Role extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;

    /**
     * Connect to user table
     */
    public function users() {
        return $this->belongsToMany(User::class);
    }
}
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nsvetozarevic's avatar

Is the function hasRole() undefined, or the user instance?

Snapey's avatar

how are you expecting hasRole to work? you dont have any code for that?

jaspercreel's avatar

Is $user an instance of "App\Models\User", or the GenericUser? Because it looks like the method exists on App\Models\User but not the other, and typically you should be working with App\Models\User.

jaspercreel's avatar

@Snapey Just looking at his title.

Call to undefined method Illuminate\Auth\GenericUser::hasRole()

He's gotta be trying to call hasRole on the "GenericUser" class right? GenericUser is a thing in Laravel, though I don't know how he would have imported that instead of the regular user. But this feels like he imported the wrong class in his Login Controller. He didn't share the imports for that file.

https://laravel.com/api/10.x/Illuminate/Auth/GenericUser.html

tykus's avatar

@kyuib the GenericUser is returned by the DatabaseUserProvider, is it possible that you have cached your config with an earlier configuration where you were using the database driver for your authentication; it does look like you have been messing around with the config?!?!

Try clearing the cached config:

php artisan config:clear

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