Target class Redis doesnt exist when installing telescope on Laravel 7

no dice there unfortunately. I've cleared both

• packages.php
• services.php

and re-ran composer install and I get the same error.

I cannot seem to recreate it locally in a laravel 7 install. What are you using redis for? What versions of packages are you using?

I tried with

• laravel 7.30.4
• telescope 3.5.1
• lighthouse 5.22.2

rereading my initial post, it telescope I'm having problem installing not lighthouse.

Yeah I noticed but installed both just to be sure :)

I just installed a brand new laravel 7 installation, and replaced the composer.json with the above (with a few tweaks to get it working). And it ran artisan without any issues. Can you perhaps check your service providers or the includes/helpers.php file for any reference to 'redis' ?

sure.

Btw. It should be bound into the container here.

https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/7.x/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php#L1266

Also check app.php (in config) that you have this under aliases

'Redis' => Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redis::class,

and this under serviceproviders

Illuminate\Redis\RedisServiceProvider::class,

rereading my initial question, its telescope I'm having issue installing, not lighthouse.

Writing lock file
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  - Installing phpseclib/bcmath_compat (1.0.6): Extracting archive
  - Installing moontoast/math (1.2.1): Extracting archive
  - Installing laravel/telescope (v3.0.0): Extracting archive
 0/3 [>---------------------------]   0%
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1 package suggestions were added by new dependencies, use `composer suggest` to see details.
Package moontoast/math is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use brick/math instead.
Package zendframework/zend-diactoros is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use laminas/laminas-diactoros instead.
Package fzaninotto/faker is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No replacement was suggested.
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Generating optimized autoload files
> Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump
> @php artisan package:discover

In Container.php line 811:
                                        
  Target class [redis] does not exist.  
                                        

In Container.php line 809:
                              
  Class redis does not exist  

I'm running the following composer require laravel/telescope 3

Do a search for 'redis' in the whole app directory and includes directory :)

the only places redis is mentioned is within

• broadcasting.php
• cache.php
• database.php
• queue.php
• session.php

these look like default laravel settings.

Did you check the app.php file? Perhaps it has some wrong configuration? Like missing Redis, as mentioned above

app.php all looks pretty standard

<?php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Create The Application
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| The first thing we will do is create a new Laravel application instance
| which serves as the "glue" for all the components of Laravel, and is
| the IoC container for the system binding all of the various parts.
|
*/

$app = new Illuminate\Foundation\Application(
    realpath(__DIR__.'/../')
);

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Bind Important Interfaces
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Next, we need to bind some important interfaces into the container so
| we will be able to resolve them when needed. The kernels serve the
| incoming requests to this application from both the web and CLI.
|
*/

$app->singleton(
    Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class,
    App\Http\Kernel::class
);

$app->singleton(
    Illuminate\Contracts\Console\Kernel::class,
    App\Console\Kernel::class
);

$app->singleton(
    Illuminate\Contracts\Debug\ExceptionHandler::class,
    App\Exceptions\Handler::class
);
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Return The Application
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This script returns the application instance. The instance is given to
| the calling script so we can separate the building of the instances
| from the actual running of the application and sending responses.
|
*/

return $app;

It should then fail on 'Redis' not 'redis'. And it would be the redis module. What if you run artisan outside of the container?

I can't run artisan outside of the container as I'm not running php7.4 on my Mac.

How about using a phpinfo.php file to check if the redis module is installed? Or php -m from the shell (inside the container)

searching within phpinfo, I see no reference to redis.

You can try installing it in the container perhaps? I am unsure if the issue is there but it could be worth a shot :)

Or use valet to install php7.4 locally to test that out :)

I'm have to bounce this off our devops guy to see if he can get redis installed for me within Dockerfile.

I can work round it for now, but will update this ticket once I've got redis on the container and see if that sorts it out.

Weirdly I recall this also being an issue on a clean laravel 8 project too - so suspect its docker related as they're using the same image.

The only time I can recall having problems like this, was when I had files inside /bootstrap/cache

@kingmaker_bgp So checking with our devops guy, he came back with:

we dont want to use PECL, its yet another repository to manage

So instead we've added the following to Dockerfile:

# install redis for telescope compatability
RUN pecl install redis
RUN docker-php-ext-enable redis

which gets past the Target class [redis] does not exist. error but now gives a new one:

In RedisWatcher.php line 21:
                                                 
  Call to undefined method Redis::connections()  

with my best googling I found http://www.coding4developers.com/laravel/laravel-call-to-undefined-method-redisconnection/ which suggests

The Redis class is built-in to Laravel and connection() is there. It can't be missing.  You might have installed php-redis on your system. Redis can be another class into php-redis. So there may conflict between Laravel Redis alias and another Redis class.

and suggests removing php-redis which is at odds to what we've done earlier.

Any suggestions on how to get this installed without relying on PECL?