Class &quot;App\User&quot; not found

Level 73

And in your UserFactory do you import from the correct namespace?

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Level 5

@Nakov

I think so:

<?php

namespace Database\Factories\Domain\User\Models;

use App\Domain\User\Enums\Role;
use App\Domain\User\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

/**
 * @extends Factory<User>
 */
class UserFactory extends Factory
{
    protected static ?string $password;

    /**
     * Define the model's default state.
     *
     * @return array<string, mixed>
     */
    public function definition(): array
    {
        return [
            'name'              => fake()->name(),
            'email'             => fake()->unique()->safeEmail(),
            'email_verified_at' => now(),
            'password'          => static::$password ??= Hash::make('password'),
            'remember_token'    => Str::random(10),
        ];
    }

    /**
     * Indicate that the model's email address should be unverified.
     */
    public function unverified(): static
    {
        return $this->state(fn(array $attributes) => [
            'email_verified_at' => null,
        ]);
    }

Level 5

Ah, now that I looked at it again, I mentioned that I do not have

    protected                $model = User::class;

set in the factory. Having that set, the error disappears.

But I still don't know why. It was not included in the default factory that comes with Laravel after installing.

Level 73

@ahoi just remember that after making changes.. like if you found an import and you fixed it, you will need to restart the tinker session each time. If you try in your routes to add dd(User::first()); will it return a user or it will show similar error?

Level 73

@ahoi are you sure? Delete that one and run php artisan make:factory UserFactory --model=User and see if it creates it. Otherwise probably you have an old stub file.

Level 5

@Nakov Yes, I did. I even restarted valet, because I thought about some weird OPCache bug or something ;-)

As described, I had to set $model property in the factory class. So thank you for your hint to double-check the Factory class.

Level 5

@Nakov

Yes, this is the result of the make:factory command:

<?php

namespace Database\Factories;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory;

/**
 * @extends \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory<\App\User>
 */
class UserFactory extends Factory
{
    /**
     * Define the model's default state.
     *
     * @return array<string, mixed>
     */
    public function definition(): array
    {
        return [
            //
        ];
    }
}

Level 73

@ahoi you can publish the stub files and edit them: https://laravel-news.com/customizing-stubs-in-laravel

so that you don't have to remember to add the $model each time. Although I think that as long as you use the --model flag it should insert the model.. but not sure what else is going on there. Update to the latest version I guess.

martinbean