Laravel 5 Extending core class

Question

I'm trying to extend Laravel 5 core class. What i want to achieve is that i can have custom url generators eg. URL::test(), will generate custom link.

So far i have:

Created app/Acme/lib folder

Added app/Acme/lib path to composer.json classmap

"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
        ....
        app/Acme/lib
     ]
}

Created custom UrlGenerator class in Acme/lib/CustomUrlGenerator.php

<?php namespace App\Acme\lib;
use \Illuminate\Routing\UrlGenerator;
class CustomUrlGenerator extends UrlGenerator {
    public function test() {
       return $this->to('/test');
    }
}

Created service provider app/Acme/lib/CustomUrlServiceProvider.php

<?php namespace App\Acme\lib;
use \Illuminate\Routing\RoutingServiceProvider;
class CustomUrlServiceProvider extends RoutingServiceProvider {
    public function boot() {
        App::bind('url', function() {
            return new CustomUrlGenerator(
                App::make('router')->getRoutes(),
                App::make('request')
            );
        });
        parent::boot();
    }
}

Registered service provider in app/config/app.php
Run composer dump-autoload

Now when i run {!! URL::test() !!}, im getting 404 for every route

Sorry, the page you are looking for could not be found.
NotFoundHttpException in /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/RouteCollection.php line 143:

Is there something that i'm missing? Many thanks for any help ..

w3spi w3spi · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-08T08:39:56

You talk about a mistake in the RouteCollection.php file, but you don't include it in your question. Furthermore, I would have written differently in the composer.json, like this:

"autoload": {
"classmap": [
        // ....
        "App\\Your_Namespace\\" : "app/Acme/lib",
    ]
}

Laravel 5 Extending core class

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