Debugbar has empty old and new flash session data

I have the default installation of Debugbar in Laravel 8. Everything seems to be working normally, except the _flash session data is empty on a normal POST request with a form request class for validation. When validation fails, the data is not there. The _flash data looks like this:

array:2 [
  "old" => []
  "new" => []
]

When I do a dd(old()) I see the data so I know the session is fine. It's just not showing in Debugbar.

Is there something I need to set up for this to work? Any ideas? Thanks.

s4muel

4 years ago

Best Answer

Level 50

on the righthand side of the debugbar, there is a file icon, click it and you will see recent requests after your form submit that failed validation you should see two:

GET - destination of the redirect after failed validation
POST - actual form submit
... others from history

click the POST row, the debugbar data updates to show that POST request and you should see what you expect in the _flash session data

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split19

4 years ago

Level 3

Wow, great. I do see the data there. Thanks very much.

But why isn't the _flash data in the default Session tab populated? Is there a way to enable it?

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