Missing argument 1 for Illuminate\\Support\\Manager::createDriver() - laravel

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I had a look at every post related to this error in Laravel:
Missing argument 1 for Illuminate Support Manager - createDriver()
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None of them solved my issue: I am using Laravel Lumen version 5.4 and Dingo API package.
I want to access to the Authenticated User in the incoming request:
$request->user(); //returns an instance of the authenticated user
However this will throw me an error saying:
Missing argument 1 for Illuminate\Support\Manager::createDriver(), called in /var/www/html/myApp/vendor/illuminate/support/Manager.php on line 88 and defined",
I know that in order to get the Authenticated User, you need to provide the Auth Middleware inside the routing:
$api->get('register/{accountId}', ['middleware' => 'auth', 'App\Http\Controllers\Api\V1\RegisterController#registerAction']);
But adding the Middleware Auth inside my route will actually not reach the Controller endpoint and throw the same error that you can see above.
I have the AuthServiceProvider registered in my bootstrap/app.php:
$app->register(App\Providers\AuthServiceProvider::class);
And this is the AuthServiceProvider class:
<?php
namespace App\Providers;
use App\Models\Account;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
class AuthServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider {
/**
* Register any application services.
*
* #return void
*/
public function register() {
}
/**
* Boot the authentication services for the application.
*
* #return void
*/
public function boot() {
// Here you may define how you wish users to be authenticated for your Lumen
// application. The callback which receives the incoming request instance
// should return either a User instance or null. You're free to obtain
// the User instance via an API token or any other method necessary.
$this->app['auth']->viaRequest('api', function ($request) {
if ($request->input('api_token')) {
return Account::where('api_token', $request->input('api_token'))->first();
}
});
}
}
This is what I have in config/auth.php:
<?php
return [
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Authentication Defaults
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This option controls the default authentication "guard" and password
| reset options for your application. You may change these defaults
| as required, but they're a perfect start for most applications.
|
*/
'defaults' => [
'guard' => 'web',
'passwords' => 'users',
],
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Authentication Guards
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Next, you may define every authentication guard for your application.
| Of course, a great default configuration has been defined for you
| here which uses session storage and the Eloquent user provider.
|
| All authentication drivers have a user provider. This defines how the
| users are actually retrieved out of your database or other storage
| mechanisms used by this application to persist your user's data.
|
| Supported: "session", "token"
|
*/
'guards' => [
'web' => [
'driver' => 'session',
'provider' => 'users',
],
'api' => [
'driver' => 'token',
'provider' => 'users',
],
],
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| User Providers
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| All authentication drivers have a user provider. This defines how the
| users are actually retrieved out of your database or other storage
| mechanisms used by this application to persist your user's data.
|
| If you have multiple user tables or models you may configure multiple
| sources which represent each model / table. These sources may then
| be assigned to any extra authentication guards you have defined.
|
| Supported: "database", "eloquent"
|
*/
'providers' => [
'users' => [
'driver' => 'eloquent',
'model' => App\User::class,
],
],
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Resetting Passwords
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| You may specify multiple password reset configurations if you have more
| than one user table or model in the application and you want to have
| separate password reset settings based on the specific user types.
|
| The expire time is the number of minutes that the reset token should be
| considered valid. This security feature keeps tokens short-lived so
| they have less time to be guessed. You may change this as needed.
|
*/
'passwords' => [
'users' => [
'provider' => 'users',
'table' => 'password_resets',
'expire' => 60,
],
],
];
I tried to debug the issue myself and I found out that this is where it is breaking in Laravel:
/**
* Create a new driver instance.
*
* #param string $driver
* #return mixed
*
* #throws \InvalidArgumentException
*/
protected function createDriver($driver)
{
// We'll check to see if a creator method exists for the given driver. If not we
// will check for a custom driver creator, which allows developers to create
// drivers using their own customized driver creator Closure to create it.
if (isset($this->customCreators[$driver])) {
return $this->callCustomCreator($driver);
} else {
$method = 'create'.Str::studly($driver).'Driver';
if (method_exists($this, $method)) {
return $this->$method();
}
}
throw new InvalidArgumentException("Driver [$driver] not supported.");
}
I can see in the stackTrace that it is passing a NULL driver inside createDriver() method which cause the error that I'm having. I wonder if it is not a simple configuration thing that I have to add inside my .env file.
I am starting with Laravel Lumen, it's a great tool for building API and I'm not blaming the tool itself (I took a lot of time reading the beautiful documentation), I'm pretty sure that I missed something very simple, if someone can guide me to this, I will be very pleased.

Answer 1

Are you using Laravel Scout (with Algolia search driver)?
I came across the errors you seen while running my database seeds. In the end, I realized my tired mind forgot to define the correct env variables in my .env file, as below:
SCOUT_DRIVER=algolia
ALGOLIA_APP_ID=yourAlgoliaAppId
ALGOLIA_SECRET=yourAlgoliaSecret
If you haven't published the scout config file, do so with the following command:
php artisan vendor:publish
--provider="Laravel\Scout\ScoutServiceProvider"
Make sure you have put 'Laravel\Scout\ScoutServiceProvider::class' in the providers array in 'config/app.php' before running the above command.
Once I published the config file (named config/scout.php by default), I used the env variables as below:
<?php
return [
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Default Search Engine
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This option controls the default search connection that gets used while
| using Laravel Scout. This connection is used when syncing all models
| to the search service. You should adjust this based on your needs.
|
| Supported: "algolia", "elasticsearch", "null"
|
*/
'driver' => env('SCOUT_DRIVER'),
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Index Prefix
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may specify a prefix that will be applied to all search index
| names used by Scout. This prefix may be useful if you have multiple
| "tenants" or applications sharing the same search infrastructure.
|
*/
'prefix' => env('SCOUT_PREFIX', ''),
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Queue Data Syncing
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This option allows you to control if the operations that sync your data
| with your search engines are queued. When this is set to "true" then
| all automatic data syncing will get queued for better performance.
|
*/
'queue' => false,
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Algolia Configuration
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may configure your Algolia settings. Algolia is a cloud hosted
| search engine which works great with Scout out of the box. Just plug
| in your application ID and admin API key to get started searching.
|
*/
'algolia' => [
'id' => env('ALGOLIA_APP_ID'),
'secret' => env('ALGOLIA_SECRET'),
],
];
Once I did all of the above, the errors went away. This answer might not directly address your exact issue, but it could perhaps give you thoughts or aid your troubleshooting process.