Hi everyone,
I'm getting the following error when trying to create article with the factory method as a part of the laravel from scratch course. I'm trying to create 10 random articles from tinker.
>>> Article::factory()->count(10)->create();
PHP Error: Class 'Database/Factories/App/Models/User' not found in C:/freshproject/database/factories/ArticleFactory.php on line 25
I've triple and quadruple checked everything and I can't seem to find why the file isn't being drawn from the root directory - seems to be the only thing wrong. I've had to change the original code form the course as I found that the functionality is different in laravel 8. I'm assuming i'm missing something in translation. This is my factory code:
<?php
namespace Database\Factories;
use App\Models\Article;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\Factory;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;
class ArticleFactory extends Factory
{
/**
* The name of the factory's corresponding model.
*
* @var string
*/
protected $model = Article::class;
/**
* Define the model's default state.
*
* @return array
*/
public function definition()
{
return [
'user_id' => function () {
return \App\Models\User::factory();
},
'title' => $faker->sentence,
'excerpt' => $faker->paragraph,
'body' => $faker->paragraphs(5)
];
}
}
Any help would be appreciated!
Also tried
use App\Models\User;
and
return [
'user_id' => function () {
return User::factory();
},
'title' => $faker->sentence,
'excerpt' => $faker->paragraph,
'body' => $faker->paragraphs(5)
];
But wasn't able to make that work either.
That should work. Only error I see is you are missing $this for faker
'title' => $this->faker->sentence,
'excerpt' => $this->faker->paragraph,
'body' => $this->faker->paragraphs(5)
Give this a shot
'user_id' => \App\Models\User::factory(),
Hi Sinnbeck, thanks for jumping in again!
>>> Article::factory()->count(10)->create();
PHP Error: Class 'Database/Factories/App/Models/User' not found in C:/freshproject/database/factories/ArticleFactory.php on line 27
>>> Article::factory()->count(10)->create();
PHP Error: Class 'Database/Factories/App/Models/User' not found in C:/freshproject/database/factories/ArticleFactory.php on line 27
>>> Article::factory()->count(10)->create();
PHP Error: Class 'Database/Factories/App/Models/User' not found in C:/freshproject/database/factories/ArticleFactory.php on line 27
The first two are the errors when I make those changes, and third is when I try the second method with a '' before 'App'. The directory seems to be added onto the end of "Database\Factories' no matter what I try.
Sorry missed a \. Added to my answer :)
That was the third thing I tried. Still seems to be trying to find the file in the factories folder. Not too sure what to try!
I cannot recreate it sadly.
Perhaps try dumping your autoload
composer dump-autoload
Also I suggest you use the use App\Models\User; method in your file :)
After a bit of playing around the dump-autoload seemed to do the trick! Will have to do some research on what I actually did there :)
Thanks again for your help!
I have the same error. My situation is an updated of laravel code with different base Namespace. Debugging code i found that in vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Factories/Factory.php row 689 there is:
public static function resolveFactoryName(string $modelName) {
$resolver = static::$factoryNameResolver ?: function (string $modelName) {
$modelName = Str::startsWith($modelName, 'App\Models\')
? Str::after($modelName, 'App\Models\')
: Str::after($modelName, 'App\');
return static::$namespace.$modelName.'Factory';
};
return $resolver($modelName);
}
As you can see the code expects that namespace is App and not another string.
I solved the problem creating a custom command as explain here: https://gist.github.com/isluewell/b824c0aef32f5007170fcd0d8498b657 and then I regenerated autoload with composer dump-autoload
I hope this can be useful because I "lost" some hours to find it.
Worked for me after running php artisan migrate:refresh
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