Uncaught Error: Class 'Laravel\Tinker\ClassAliasAutoloader' not found

[mendelsimon]

// Laravel Tinker started at 2020-09-04 11:18:43
PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Class 'Laravel\Tinker\ClassAliasAutoloader' not found in Command line code:38
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
  thrown in Command line code on line 38

                                                                                                 
  [Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException]                                        
  Uncaught Error: Class 'Laravel\Tinker\ClassAliasAutoloader' not found in Command line code:38  
  Stack trace:                                                                                   
  #0 {main}                                                                                      
    thrown                                                                                       
                                                                                                 



*** Execution finished ***

[Roboroads]

Hey, what version of Laravel are you on? Or version of Tinker?

[mendelsimon]

Laravel 5.3.20 with PHP 7.1.28 on Windows.

[Roboroads]

Well, there is the problem. I'm using the underlying laravel tinker package (https://github.com/laravel/tinker). Laravel Tinker was introduced in Laravel 5.4 (tinker 1.0 btw, I have only tested it with tinker 2 which came with Laravel 6)

You should consider upgrading to a higher laravel version.

But nontheless, thank you for trying to help me find bugs!

[mendelsimon]

I can definitely use Tinker in Laravel 5.3.20 with php artisan tinker.
Here is the version information for Tinker in my Laravel version: Psy Shell v0.7.2 (PHP 7.1.28 — cli)

[Roboroads]

What is your tinker version? (composer show laravel/tinker)

[mendelsimon]

Running that command gives me

[InvalidArgumentException]
Package laravel/tinker not found

It looks like Tinker used to be a part of laravel/framework before 5.4, where it was removed into its own laravel/tinker package: laravel/framework#17002.

[Roboroads]

Ah, seems like it. I think the scope of this bug goes a little over what I want to support. Laravel ended support for 5.3 a long time ago (August 23rd, 2017). I'm willing to fix bugs that occur in currently supported versions.There has to be some boundary, I hope you understand me 🙏

If you really want to support your edge case, you may create a PR for it :)

[Roboroads]

@mendelsimon I will add an if araound the classloader (#20) so your application will probably also work in v1.1.2 - note that autoloading is probably not going to work, but i'm not sure and am also not officially supporting it.