Laravel 4 package from private repository: ServiceProvider not found

Question

I created a package for Laravel 4 that worked properly when used in development in workbench but when I install it with Composer it keeps returning me the error Class 'Myvendor\Mypackage\MypackageServiceProvider' not found.

There is a particularity with my package which is that the name of my classes sources are different from the name of my package. Usually they are the same.

vendor/
    Houle/
        laravel-dynamite/
            src/
                Fhoule/
                    Dynamite/
                        DynamiteServiceProvider.php

I know that it can work because Laravel work's this way too.

vendor/
    laravel/
        framework/
            src/
                Illuminate/

And the property PSR-0 of my package composer.json seems to be properly configured:

"name": "Houle/laravel-dynamite",
...
"require": {
    "php": ">=5.3.0",
    "illuminate/support": "4.0.x"
},
"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
        "src/migrations",
        "src/controllers",
        "src/models"
    ],
    "psr-0": {
        "Fhoule\\Dynamite": "src/"
    }
},
...

How I created my package:

Created the package with Artisan.
Maked it work properly in workbench directory
Pushed to private Bitbucket repo
Installed new instance of Laravel

Changed composer.json configuration to install my package (from private repository)

"name": "laravel/laravel",
...
"require": {
    "laravel/framework": "4.0.*",
    "Houle/laravel-dynamite": "2.0.1"
},  
"repositories": [{
    "type": "package",
    "package": {
        "name": "Houle/laravel-dynamite",
        "version": "2.0.1",
        "source": {
            "url": "[email protected]:Houle/laravel-dynamite.git",
            "type": "git",              
            "reference": "v2.0.1"
        }
    }
}],
...

Added my package Service Provider to app/config/app.php:

'providers' => array(
    'Fhoule\Dynamite\DynamiteServiceProvider',
)

That's where my application return the error Class 'Fhoule\Dynamite\DynamiteServiceProvider' not found.

What could be my issue?

It's not necessary after executing composer install or update, but yes I tried it. — FR6
Ok, but actually, it is necessary to run artisan's dump-autoload if you are using workbench as it does more than the composer dump-autoload. — Hao Luo

FR6 FR6 · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-01T02:28:25

I found my problem, it hadn't nothing to do with the way I named my vendor, package and classes.

It was that in my composer.json (root of the project), I set my repository type to package but like the Composer documentation states the type package is for packages that don't support Composer. That's why Composer wasn't updating my autoload_classmap.php file.

So if you want to use a private repository (like at Bitbucket or GitHub) you need to set the type of the repository to git:

{
    "name": "laravel/laravel",
    ...
    "require": {
        "laravel/framework": "4.0.*",
        "houle/laravel-dynamite": "dev-master"
    },  
    "repositories": [{
        "type": "git",
        "url": "[email protected]:Houle/laravel-dynamite.git"       
    }],
    ...
}

Hope it helps someone.

Laravel 4 package from private repository: ServiceProvider not found

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