Setting up Queue in Lumen Framework - laravel

Question

I'm trying to set up queue in Lumen using the guide from lumen page:
http://lumen.laravel.com/docs/queues
<?php
namespace App\Jobs;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Bus\SelfHandling;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
class BlastEmail extends Job implements SelfHandling, ShouldQueue
{
public function sendEmail()
{
[...CODE TO SEND EMAIL...]
}
public function handle()
{
$this->sendEmail();
}
}
and in My Controller
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\Jobs\BlastEmail;
use App\Models\Blast;
use App\Models\Subscriber;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Validator;
class BlastsController extends BaseController
{
public function queue(Request $request)
{
$job = (new BlastEmail($email,$request->input('content'),$request->input('title')));
$this->dispatch($job);
}
}
Controller.php
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Laravel\Lumen\Routing\Controller as BaseController;
class Controller extends BaseController
{
//
}
BaseController.php
use Dingo\Api\Routing\Helpers;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller;
use Cartalyst\Sentinel\Native\Facades\Sentinel;
class BaseController extends Controller {
function someFunctionThatOtherGuyWrote()
{
// Some code that other guy wrote
}
}
And I got
Undefined method App\Http\Controllers\BlastsController::dispatch
Do I miss something?

Answer 1

Looking at your code, your BlastsController extends App\Http\Controllers\BaseController and not App\Http\Controllers\Controller.
You should change it to extend Controlller class changing class BlastsController extends BaseController into class BlastsController extends Controller because this class will finally uses Laravel\Lumen\Routing\DispatchesJobs trait that contains dispatch method
EDIT
After update you didn't show full BaseController file but it seems you extends wrong class. You extend Illuminate\Routing\Controller and you should extend App\Http\Controllers\Controller