Controller not found

[GoldraK]

First of all, thank you for the time and the package.

I need to customize some of the create and update functions so I have created a controller for the resource as the documentation says

php artisan jsonapi:controller Api/V1/BuildingController

In routes add the buildings resource

JsonApiRoute::server('v1')
    ->prefix('v1')
    ->namespace('Api\V1')
    ->resources(function ($server) {
        $server->resource('buildings');
    });

But when I go to see the routes, it say me the Controller not exists

php artisan r:l --columns=URI,name
Cannot load Xdebug - it was already loaded

   Illuminate\Contracts\Container\BindingResolutionException 

  Target class [Api\V1\BuildingController] does not exist.

  at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:832
    828▕ 
    829▕         try {
    830▕             $reflector = new ReflectionClass($concrete);
    831▕         } catch (ReflectionException $e) {
  ➜ 832▕             throw new BindingResolutionException("Target class [$concrete] does not exist.", 0, $e);
    833▕         }
    834▕ 
    835▕         // If the type is not instantiable, the developer is attempting to resolve
    836▕         // an abstract type such as an Interface or Abstract Class and there is

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

      +13 vendor frames 
  15  [internal]:0
      Illuminate\Foundation\Console\RouteListCommand::Illuminate\Foundation\Console\{closure}(Object(Illuminate\Routing\Route))

But is here

If I use the JSON:API Controller work perfect

Thanks for your time.

[lindyhopchris]

Hi! So it says this does not exist: Api\V1\BuildingController

As you can see that's missing your App\Http\Controllers namespace before it.

So the answer to this is: it depends whether you're using the $namespace property in your RouteServiceProvider:
https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/8.x/app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php#L29

It looks like you aren't. So in that case you'd need to do:

JsonApiRoute::server('v1')
    ->prefix('v1')
    ->resources(function ($server) {
        $server->resource('buildings', \App\Http\Controllers\Api\V1\BuildingController::class);
    });

The relevant section of the docs is here:
https://laraveljsonapi.io/docs/1.0/routing/#controllers-and-namespaces

Let me know if that solves it.

[GoldraK]

Thanks for the help.

Now it works perfectly, ignore when I read the paragraph that explains it clearly, sorry for my mistake.

All the best.

[lindyhopchris]

No problem, glad you got it working.