Laravel 5.1 throws ReflectionException after upgrade from 5.0

Try running

composer dump-autoload -o

Sorry, that didn't solve the problem. I also updated my question.

Hello @laracast-bloom , since there is no possibility to reproduce your case, please check all your namespaces. Maybe you have defined Namespaces and your files and paths do not match to them. Match your Namespaces to all Folder Paths. Just write, if it's all ok, because then, it's another issue.

I can't find any error in my code.

I also tried to delete composer.lock and the vendor folder and then execute php composer install but that didn't work either.

I know that using artisan tinker I can do something like this:

use App\Http\Requests\User\GetRequest;
$getRequest = new GetRequest();

And that gives me an error because it's missing a parameter but it's not saying that the class can't be found.

@laracast-bloom In which folder is GetRequest.php saved?

The folder is app/Http/Requests/User.

My editor PHPStorm is not complaining about missing classes. I really don't know what to think anymore.

Ok, please give us your code, where you call GetRequest Maybe you have it in one Controller, but used a wrong Namespace.

<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Http\Requests\User\GetRequest;
use Bloom\Product\Repository\UserRepositoryInterface;
use Bloom\Product\Transformers\UserTransformer;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

/**
 * Class UserController
 * @package App\Http\Controllers
 */
class UserController extends APIController
{
    /**
     * @var UserRepositoryInterface
     */
    private $userRepository;

    /**
     * @param UserRepositoryInterface $userRepository
     */
    public function __construct(UserRepositoryInterface $userRepository)
    {
        $this->userRepository = $userRepository;
    }

    /**
     * @param GetRequest $request
     * @return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response
     */
    public function get(GetRequest $request)
    {
        if(!$this->userRepository->getUser()) return $this->respondOK('User not found.');

        $user = $this->userRepository->getUser();

        return $this->respondOK('', (new UserTransformer())->transform($user->toArray()));
    }
}

I omitted all the other methods because all of them are causing the same issue. Of course the same is valid for all the other controllers.

As you can see I'm just following the Form Validation documentation.

You miss the the use statement for the UserRepositoryInterface class and also for UserTransformer. Include the namespaces for them as well!

Yes, I omitted them because they're not relevant, but they're included in the original file. I will update my previous post anyway.

I tried also to create a new request using

php artisan make:request TestRequest

and then using the TestRequest in the UserController.php

/**
 * @param GetRequest $request
 * @return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response
 */
public function get(TestRequest $request)
{
    if(!$this->userRepository->getUser()) return $this->respondOK('User not found.');

    $user = $this->userRepository->getUser();

    return $this->respondOK('', (new UserTransformer())->transform($user->toArray()));
}

but I still receive the same error.

OK, I found the solution.

I noticed that if in GetRequest class I swap use App\Http\Requests\Request; with use Request; then the GetRequest class is found and the ReflectionException is not thrown anymore.

So the problem is not in the App\Http\Requests\User\GetRequest class but in the abstract class App\Http\Requests\Request.

After looking at the App\Http\Requests\Request class, to which I made changes, I decided to replace it with the dist version from Laravel and then I reapplied my changes.

Long story short: The problem was in App\Http\Requests\Request because I made changes to it and something changed with the update to Laravel 5.1.

@fetch404 Thanks, it helped me!