Can Laravels ioc container use autoloaded namespaces?

Question

Lets say I have a class MyClass in app/repository/MyClass.php in the Repository namespace:

namespace Repository;

class MyClass { ... }

I can bind this using the ioc container:

App::bind('SomeClass', 'Repository\MyClass');

Same thing with model dependencies:

SomeClass extends Eloquent{

    public function dependency()
    {
         return $this->hasOne('Models\Dependency');
    }        

}

One solution is to create aliases in app.php, but this has to be done for every single file that I want to have automatically namespaced:

'MyClass' => 'Repository\MyClass'

Is it possible to make the ioc container recognize the correct namespace for the classes without using aliases? Can we in any way use Composer for this?

Answer 1

It is not possible unless you want to register an alias for every class in your namespaces. My recent Laravel 4 project has IOC Container bindings to namespaced classes which I declared explicitly.

App::bind('Foo\Bar\Repositories\UserRepositoryInterface', 'Foo\Bar\Repositories\DbUserRepository');

Answer 2

You could use

cd /path/to/laravel/
php composer dump-autoload

to have laravel see all the (new) classes and load them correctly

Answer 3

Add app/repository to the autoload section of the composer.json file, like this for example:

"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
         "app/commands",
         "app/controllers",
         "app/models",
         "app/database/migrations",
         "app/database/seeds",
         "app/tests/TestCase.php",
         "app/repository"
    ]
},

Then run composer dump-autoload.