Auth Controller not Exist in laravel 5.7 with JWT Authentication - jwt

Question

I am trying to implement JWT authentication with laravel 5.7 but i am facing an issue while sending a request in Laravel. the error is as follows.
error: Object { message: "Class App\\Http\\Controllers\\App\\Http\\Controllers\\AuthController does not exist", exception: "ReflectionException", file: "C:\\Users\\DELL\\Desktop\\laravel+angular\\backend\\vendor\\laravel\\framework\\src\\Illuminate\\Container\\Container.php", … }
​
headers: Object { normalizedNames: Map(0), lazyUpdate: null, lazyInit: lazyInit()
}
​
message: "Http failure response for http://localhost:8000/api/login: 500 Internal Server Error"
​
name: "HttpErrorResponse"
​
ok: false
​
status: 500
​
statusText: "Internal Server Error"
​
url: "http://localhost:8000/api/login"
here is my auth controller
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
class AuthController extends Controller
{
/**
* Create a new AuthController instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct()
{
$this->middleware('auth:api', ['except' => ['login']]);
}
/**
* Get a JWT token via given credentials.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
*
* #return \Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse
*/
public function login(Request $request)
{
$credentials = $request->only('email', 'password');
if ($token = $this->guard()->attempt($credentials)) {
return $this->respondWithToken($token);
}
return response()->json(['error' => 'Unauthorized'], 401);
}
/**
* Get the authenticated User
*
* #return \Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse
*/
public function me()
{
return response()->json($this->guard()->user());
}
/**
* Log the user out (Invalidate the token)
*
* #return \Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse
*/
public function logout()
{
$this->guard()->logout();
return response()->json(['message' => 'Successfully logged out']);
}
/**
* Refresh a token.
*
* #return \Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse
*/
public function refresh()
{
return $this->respondWithToken($this->guard()->refresh());
}
/**
* Get the token array structure.
*
* #param string $token
*
* #return \Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse
*/
protected function respondWithToken($token)
{
return response()->json([
'access_token' => $token,
'token_type' => 'bearer',
'expires_in' => $this->guard()->factory()->getTTL() * 60,
'user'=> auth()->user()->name
]);
}
/**
* Get the guard to be used during authentication.
*
* #return \Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Guard
*/
public function guard()
{
return Auth::guard();
}
}
it says AuthController does not exist where as i checked and i have it in my http->controller folder in laravel project. please help me ! Thanks ..!!

Answer 1

This looks like a namespace issue:
App\Http\Controllers\App\Http\Controllers\AuthController
Notice how App\Http\Controllers is repeated?
It looks like you might have forgotten a leading \, perhaps using App\Http\Controllers\AuthController instead of \App\Http\Controllers\AuthController somewhere. Without it, the namespace is relative to the current namespace of whatever script it was used in. It's similar to relative or absolute paths in files and urls.
If it happened while defining an authentication route, by default Laravel will prepend the App\Http\Controllers namespace to whatever controller name you gave as the action (you can see this defined in RouteServiceProvider.php).
Edit:
The problem seems to be caused by outdated instructions in the guide that you followed:
First let's add some routes in routes/api.php as follows:
Route::group([
'middleware' => 'api',
'namespace' => 'App\Http\Controllers',
'prefix' => 'auth'
], function ($router) {
Route::post('login', 'AuthController#login');
Route::post('logout', 'AuthController#logout');
Route::post('refresh', 'AuthController#refresh');
Route::post('me', 'AuthController#me');
});
Routes defined in routes/api.php already have a namespace of App\Http\Controllers, so the namespace given to this Route::group() is being appended to that namespace, causing the duplication I mentioned above. If you delete the 'namespace' => 'App\Http\Controllers', line you should solve this specific error.
You can see in their develop branch that the line has already been removed from the guide:
First let's add some routes in routes/api.php as follows:
Route::group([
'middleware' => 'api',
'prefix' => 'auth'
], function ($router) {
Route::post('login', 'AuthController#login');
Route::post('logout', 'AuthController#logout');
Route::post('refresh', 'AuthController#refresh');
Route::post('me', 'AuthController#me');
});