Laravel not finding the controller located in other folder - php

Question

I'm trying to implement a clean architecture in laravel, thus I'm moving my own code to a src folder.
My controller is located in src\notebook\infrastructure but when i call it from routes\web.php this way:
Route::get('/notebook', 'src\notebook\infrastructure\NotebooksController#show');
i got this error:
Illuminate\Contracts\Container\BindingResolutionException
Target class [src\notebook\infrastructure\NotebooksController] does not exist.
http://127.0.0.1:8000/notebook
i also changed the namespace value in the class RouteServiceProvider from:
protected $namespace = 'App\Http\Controllers';
to
protected $namespace = '';
This is my notebook controller class:
namespace src\notebook\infrastructure;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class NotebooksController extends Controller
{
public function show($id)
{
echo 'controller from infrastructure folder';
}
}
My laravel and php version in composer.json are:
"php": "^7.2.5",
"laravel/framework": "^7.24",
I feel like i'm missing something stupid but can't figure it out what.

Answer 1

Did you add src folder into the autoload?
In composer.json file, you must have something like this:
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"App\\": "app/",
"Src\\": "src/" // add this
},
"classmap": [
"database/seeds",
"database/factories"
]
},
After changing it run composer dump-autoload.
And also don't forget to follow psr-4 rules and use Studly case namespace and class names.
namespace Src\Notebook\Infrastructure;