Unable to seed data in Lumen 8 project - php

Question

I am trying to run a seeder in a lumen 8 project but have been unsuccessful for a while now. Here's the folder structure view
When I run php artisan db:seed --class="Database\Seeds\SampleTableSeeder" or php artisan db:seed --class="Database\Seeders\Seeds\SampleTableSeeder" or php artisan db:seed --class=SampleTableSeeder it fails and returns a target class not found like
Target class [Database/Seeds/SampleTableSeeder] does not exist.
I have added the namespace to SampleTableSeeder to look like
<?php
namespace Database\Seeds;
use App\Models\Sample;
class SampleTableSeeder
{
// ....
}
And in DatabaseSeeder run function, I am calling it like this
$this->call('Database/Seeds/SampleTableSeeder');
What is the right way to run this particular seeder?

Answer 1

Database/Seeds will never work, because you have not declare it on the composer.json section...
See the original file, it has this section:
{
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"App\\": "app/",
"Database\\Factories\\": "database/factories/",
"Database\\Seeders\\": "database/seeders/"
}
},
}
You have to declare that new section:
{
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"App\\": "app/",
"Database\\Factories\\": "database/factories/",
"Database\\Seeders\\": "database/seeders/",
"Database\\Seeds\\": "database/seeds/"
}
},
}
Then it will work, but I personally do NOT recommend to do that... you already have Database/Seeders...
Quick update, if running php artisan db:seed --class="Database\Seeds\SampleTableSeeder" does not work, try adding \ at the beginning, like this php artisan db:seed --class="\Database\Seeds\SampleTableSeeder"