Laravel auth RegisterController namespace causing issue with artisan route:list command

Question

When I run `php artisan route:list' I get an error it can't find the RegisterController from the auth scaffolding.

Illuminate\Contracts\Container\BindingResolutionException  : Target class [App\Http\Controllers\Auth\RegisterController] does not exist.

  at C:\xampp\htdocs\antheap\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php:805
    801|
    802|         try {
    803|             $reflector = new ReflectionClass($concrete);
    804|         } catch (ReflectionException $e) {
  > 805|             throw new BindingResolutionException("Target class [$concrete] does not exist.", 0, $e);
    806|         }
    807|
    808|         // If the type is not instantiable, the developer is attempting to resolve
    809|         // an abstract type such as an Interface or Abstract Class and there is

  Exception trace:

  1   Illuminate\Foundation\Console\RouteListCommand::Illuminate\Foundation\Console\{closure}(Object(Illuminate\Routing\Route))
      [internal]:0

  2   ReflectionException::("Class App\Http\Controllers\Auth\RegisterController does not exist")
      C:\xampp\htdocs\antheap\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php:803

Which makes sense considering the RegisterController.php file is in Controllers/Web/Auth/ and its namespace is namespace App\Http\Controllers\Web\Auth;

I'm guessing it's looking for the wrong place because of default routing in the illuminate framework. However all the other Auth controllers are functioning fine. I'm not keen on moving everything just to make the list route:list command happy, though I kinda need it not crashing right now to help fix some other issue.

---

I've changed the Auth helper in web.php and added the auth routes:

// helper class generating all routes required for user authentication
// (authentication, registration and password resetting)
Auth::routes(['verify' => true, 'register' => false]);

Route::get('/login', 'Auth\LoginController@showLoginForm')->name('login');
Route::post('/login', 'Auth\LoginController@login');
Route::get('/logout', 'LoginController@logout')->name('logout');

Route::group(['middleware' => 'auth'], function () {
    Route::get('/password/confirm', 'Auth\ConfirmPasswordController@showConfirmForm')->name('password.confirm');
    Route::post('/password/confirm', 'Auth\ConfirmPasswordController@confirm');
});

Route::post('/password/email', 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController@sendResetLinkEmail')->name('password.email');

Route::get('/password/reset', 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController@showLinkRequestForm')->name('password.request');
Route::post('/password/reset', 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController@reset')->name('password.update');
Route::get('/password/password/reset/{token}', 'ResetPasswordController@showResetForm')->name('password.reset');

Route::group(['middleware' => 'guest'], function () {
    Route::get('/password/register', 'Auth\RegisterController@showRegistrationForm')->name('register');
    Route::post('/password/register', 'Auth\RegisterController@register');
});

However, this still doesn't allow for route:list to work correctly. The weird thing is I can comment out routes from about and they would still work normally (I assume covered by the default ones). Using route:clear doesn't change anything.

I can also add or remove the Auth\ in front of the Controller name, this doesn't keep it from working , nor will it fix route:list

But the app is definitely using it because if I change the URI suffix (like 'login' to 'logintest', it will show that in the browser address.

One thing that I forget to mention is that in RouteServiceProvide.php I added the \Web namespace (I don't know how route:list deals with that?)

    /**
     * Define the "web" routes for the application.
     *
     * These routes all receive session state, CSRF protection, etc.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    protected function mapWebRoutes()
    {
        Route::middleware('web')
            ->namespace($this->namespace . '\Web')
            ->group(base_path('routes/web.php'));
    }

This because I had to break up the route file at some point into multiple ones with their own namespaces. And I put the Auth inside the Web routes due to many of its routes using limited to no middleware.

Problem is that taking Auth from the web folder and namespace just breaks way more than just route:list.

Answer 1

Ok I solved it, but not in a pretty way by moving back all the auth controllers to the folder route:list was looking for and just adding another separate routing file solely for auth

RouteServiceProvider.php

    protected function mapAuthRoutes()
    {
        Route::middleware('web')
            // ->namespace($this->namespace . '\Auth')
            ->group(base_path('routes/auth.php'));
    }

I commented out the \Auth namespace because with testing it didn't seem to work properly

And then routes/auth.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\App;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Session;

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Auth Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
*/

// helper class generating all routes required for user authentication
// (authentication, registration and password resetting)
// Auth::routes(['verify' => true, 'register' => false]);

Route::get('/login', 'App\Http\Controllers\Auth\LoginController@showLoginForm')->name('login');
Route::post('/login', 'App\Http\Controllers\Auth\LoginController@login');
Route::post('/logout', 'App\Http\Controllers\Auth\LoginController@logout')->name('logout');

Route::group(['middleware' => 'auth'], function () {
    Route::get('/password/confirm', 'App\Http\Controllers\Auth\ConfirmPasswordController@showConfirmForm')->name('password.confirm');
    Route::post('/password/confirm', 'App\Http\Controllers\Auth\ConfirmPasswordController@confirm');
});

Route::post('/password/email', 'App\Http\Controllers\Auth\ForgotPasswordController@sendResetLinkEmail')->name('password.email');

Route::get('/password/reset', 'App\Http\Controllers\Auth\ForgotPasswordController@showLinkRequestForm')->name('password.request');
Route::post('/password/reset', 'App\Http\Controllers\Auth\ForgotPasswordController@reset')->name('password.update');
Route::get('/password/password/reset/{token}', 'App\Http\Controllers\Auth\ResetPasswordController@showResetForm')->name('password.reset');

Route::group(['middleware' => 'guest'], function () {
    Route::get('/password/register', 'App\Http\Controllers\Auth\RegisterController@showRegistrationForm')->name('register');
    Route::post('/password/register', 'App\Http\Controllers\Auth\RegisterController@register');
});

I had to completely write out the paths for the controllers or it wouldn't work

And the namespace used in the auth controllers (which is also the file path):

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Auth;

use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\AuthenticatesUsers;

class LoginController extends Controller

I don't feel like this was the cleanest solution, and I would love to know why route:list doesn't seem to understand the namespacing used before. But at least it's working again now.