Eloquent event not firing from CLI (outside Laravel) - php

Question

I have the following event handler in my model:
<?php
namespace App\Model;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class User extends Model
{
//...
public static function boot()
{
parent::boot();
static::saving(function ($user) {
// die('inside');
if (empty($user->username)) {
$base = strtolower($user->first_name . '.' . $user->last_name);
do {
$username = $base . #$suffix;
$duplicate = User::where('username', '=', $username)->first();
} while($duplicate and $suffix = rand(1000, 9999));
// return the original/ generated username
$user->username = $username;
}
});
}
}
Basically when username is not set, the model will automatically generate a unique username from the first/last name. This works fine in the browser. But not in the CLI when I'm running my tests - username is not set, so it attempts to insert without username which my mysql table doesn't accept.
Below is how I'm setting up Eloquent console:
$capsule = new \Illuminate\Database\Capsule\Manager;
$capsule->addConnection([
'driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => 'localhost',
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
'database' => 'sso_dev',
'username' => 'root',
'password' => 'vagrant1',
]);
$capsule->setEventDispatcher( new \Illuminate\Events\Dispatcher( new \Illuminate\Container\Container ));
$capsule->bootEloquent();
$capsule->setAsGlobal();
Both the web environment and testing use this same code. If I comment the line setEventDispatcher then the browser environment throws an error as the event handler doesn't fire. So I know the event dispatcher is doing it's job there. Just not the testing CLI environment. Any reason why this might be?
Btw I'm using Eloquent 5.3.

Answer 1

You will need to make a call to the setEventDispatcher again when it boots.
public static function boot(){
parent::boot();
static::setEventDispatcher(new \Illuminate\Events\Dispatcher());
static::saving(function ($model){
// now you can reference your model
}
}