Laravel events not firing? - laravel

Question

I can't seem to get any of my eloquent.saved event handlers to run.
I tried this:
<?php
namespace App\Providers;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Events\Dispatcher as DispatcherContract;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Support\Providers\EventServiceProvider as ServiceProvider;
class EventServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
protected $listen = [
'eloquent.saved: \App\Models\Company' => [
'\App\Models\Company#hasSaved',
],
];
}
And then added this method to \App\Models\Company:
public function hasSaved() {
die("SAVED!!!");
}
But it doesn't run when I save a company.
I tried creating an observer:
<?php
namespace App\Providers;
use App\Models\Company;
use App\Observers\CompanyObserver;
use DB;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
public function register()
{
Company::observe(CompanyObserver::class);
}
}
But the events never fire:
<?php namespace App\Observers;
class CompanyObserver {
public function saved() {
die('saved');
}
public function saving() {
die('saving');
}
}
I tried using a listener class in EventServiceProvider instead:
protected $listen = [
'eloquent.saved: \App\Models\Company' => [
\App\Listeners\CompanySavedListener::class,
],
];
But that also never runs.
Lastly, I tried adding this to EventServiceProvider
public function boot(DispatcherContract $events)
{
parent::boot($events);
$events->listen('eloquent.*', function() {
dump(func_get_args());
});
}
And that does fire a bunch of random events, but it's just feeding me model instances -- I have no idea what events are actually firing.
So what's going on? I just want to know when my Company has saved.

Answer 1

Let's go for Observer way. The problem is that you used:
Company::observe(CompanyObserver::class);
in register method of AppServiceProvider and you should use it in boot method. When you move this line to boot method (of same class) it will work without a problem and when you save Company, code from saved method of CompanyObserver should be launched.