Unable to locate factory with name on production? - php

Question

I create a factory of a model inside an artisan command:
public function handle()
{
if (!$this->isDevelopment()) {
$this->errorMessageSwitchEnvToDev();
return;
}
$userId = $this->ask('Please specifiy user_id you want to add the payouts to.',2148);
$numberOfPayouts = $this->ask('How many payouts you want to generate?', 10);
factory(\App\Payout::class, $numberOfPayouts)->create([
'user_id' => $userId,
]);
}
The artisan works on my local desktop, but it does not work after deployment on my test server.
I get the following error message:
InvalidArgumentException : Unable to locate factory with name [100] [App\Payout].
at /www/htdocs/w0146a6f/dev/dev4.partner.healyworld.net/releases/20201014150056/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/FactoryBuilder.php:269
265| */
266| protected function getRawAttributes(array $attributes = [])
267| {
268| if (! isset($this->definitions[$this->class][$this->name])) {
> 269| throw new InvalidArgumentException("Unable to locate factory with name [{$this->name}] [{$this->class}].");
270| }
271|
272| $definition = call_user_func(
273| $this->definitions[$this->class][$this->name],
Exception trace:
1 Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\FactoryBuilder::getRawAttributes([])
/www/htdocs/w0146a6f/dev/dev4.partner.healyworld.net/releases/20201014150056/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/FactoryBuilder.php:292
2 Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\FactoryBuilder::Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\{closure}()
/www/htdocs/w0146a6f/dev/dev4.partner.healyworld.net/releases/20201014150056/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Concerns/GuardsAttributes.php:122
I do the deployment with envoyer.
My factory is defined in database/factories/PayoutFactory.php
<?php
$factory->define(\App\Payout::class, function (Faker\Generator $faker) {
return [
'user_id' => function () {
return factory(App\User::class)->create()->id;
},
'amount' => $faker->randomFloat(2),
'req_amount' => 0,
'tax_amount' => 0,
'withheld' => 0,
'vat_rate' => $faker->randomNumber(2),
'released_amount' => $faker->randomFloat(2),
'released_amount_local_currency' => $faker->randomFloat(2),
'status' => 'released',
'flag' => 0,
'created_at' => $faker->dateTimeBetween('-6 months', 'now'),
];
});
However, it won't work on production. I already cleared the cache, the routes and called composer dump-autoload, but it still failes with the same issue.
Any suggestions?
I also read all answers of Laravel 5.2: Unable to locate factory with name [default] but none of them worked.

Answer 1

Notice this:
Unable to locate factory with name [100]
It looks like factory() is willing to use states instead of quantity. In this case it's looking for a factory state called (string) "100" instead of (int) 100
Cast your amount variable to be an integer
$numberOfPayouts = (int) $this->ask('How many payouts you want to generate?', 10);
Alternatively, try using ->times($amount) method to be more explicit.