Call to undefined method Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response::withCookie() - php

Question

Laravel: 6.18.1
PHP: 7.4
Middleware in laravel is creating this error
{
"message": "Call to undefined method Symfony\\Component\\HttpFoundation\\Response::withCookie()",
"exception": "Symfony\\Component\\Debug\\Exception\\FatalThrowableError",
Code which is giving me error
if (!$request->hasCookie('ppl') || ($request->hasCookie('ppl') && $ppl_cookie->ppl_id != $ppl->ppl_id)) {
if (Auth::check()) {
Event::dispatch('ppl.updated', [Auth::user(), $ppl]);
}
return $next($request)->withCookie(cookie()->forever('ppl', $ppl));
}
I don't understand issue. cookie is not stored in browser
Edit
Middleware class
<?php
namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use Closure;
use App\System\Models\People;
use App;
use Event;
use Auth;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\URL;
use Session;
class VerifyPeople
{
protected $app;
public function __construct()
{
$this->app = app();
}
/**
* Handle an incoming request.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param \Closure $next
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
$People_cookie = json_decode($request->cookie('People'));
if (!empty($request->route()) && in_array($request->route()->uri(), $this->excepts)) {
return $next($request);
}
if ($request->getHost()) {
$domain_url = cleanUrl($request->getHost());
$People = People::where('People_url', '=', $domain_url)->remember(LONG_TERM_CACHE_TIMEOUT)->cacheTags(TAG_LONGTERM_DATA)->first();
} elseif ($request->hasCookie('People')) {
$People = $People_cookie;
}
if (empty($People)) {
$People = People::where("People_id", People::DEFAULT_People)->remember(LONG_TERM_CACHE_TIMEOUT)->cacheTags(TAG_LONGTERM_DATA)->first();
}
$this->app->singleton('People', function () use ($People) {
return $People;
});
if (!$request->hasCookie('People') || ($request->hasCookie('People') && $People_cookie->People_id != $People->People_id)) {
if (Auth::check()) {
Event::dispatch('People.updated', [Auth::user(), $People]);
}
return $next($request)->withCookie(cookie()->forever('People', $People));
}
return $next($request);
}
}

Answer 1

In the middleware when you do dd($next($request)); it is supposed print an instance of Illuminate\Http\Response which can access to ResponseTrait and withCookie method within the trait..
In your case, the instance of Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response is giving error which is extended by Illuminate\Http\Response but doesn't use ResponseTrait. That's the reason withCookie method didn't found.
There may be several reasons such as, before this middleware is executed - another middleware is modifying default response with Symfony response.
Here is the withCookie method.
public function withCookie($cookie)
{
if (is_string($cookie) && function_exists('cookie')) {
$cookie = call_user_func_array('cookie', func_get_args());
}
$this->headers->setCookie($cookie);
return $this;
}
What it does is calling setCookie method of headers. What you may do is;
Replace
return $next($request)->withCookie(cookie()->forever('People', $People));
with
$response = $next($request);
$response->headers->setCookie(cookie()->forever('People', $People));
return $response;
While looking; i found a similar case to yours