Laravel Package: How to register a third party facade inside a custom package?

Question

I'm creating a package that uses internally this hashid package.

How can I register a third party facade inside a custom package?

I tried three options and none of them worked.

Version - Composer

"aliases": {
     "Hashids": "Vinkla\\Hashids\\Facades\\Hashids"
}

Version - inside my ServiceProvider with alias

 class MyPackageServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
 {
    public function register()
    {
        ...

        $this->app->alias(\Vinkla\Hashids\Facades\Hashids::class, 'Hashids');
    }

Version - inside my ServiceProvider with AliasLoader

 class MyPackageServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
 {

    public function register()
    {
        ...

        $loader = \Illuminate\Foundation\AliasLoader::getInstance();
        $loader->alias('Hashids', \Vinkla\Hashids\Facades\Hashids::class);
     }

When I'm testing the code, I get the error:

Error: Call to undefined method Vinkla\Hashids\Facades\Hashids::encode()

inside

/** @test */
public something_to_test()
{
    dd(\Hashids::encode(1));
}

@JohnLobo that's what you see in my "version 1". I put the alias line inside my composer.json of the custom package not of the parent Laravel app — Philipp Mochine, Jun 14 '21 at 10:14

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 14 '21 at 13:33

Ok I found one solution, but I am still confused why it is like that.

In my "MyPackageServiceProvider" I need to add:

$this->app->register(HashidsServiceProvider::class);

Why do I need to register a Provider? I thought the composer is handling the work.

At the end only this works:

$this->app->register(HashidsServiceProvider::class);
$loader = \Illuminate\Foundation\AliasLoader::getInstance();
$loader->alias('Hashids', \Vinkla\Hashids\Facades\Hashids::class);

The other versions doesn't work as well :(

Laravel Package: How to register a third party facade inside a custom package?

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