Laravel 5.3 + Sentinel: BadMethodCallException in Builder.php line 2450 - php

Question

I'm trying to build my first Laravel application by following a few guides on the internet and I'm feeling I'm missing something obvious. Here is the code.
Error
BadMethodCallException in Builder.php line 2450: Call to undefined
method Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder::addresses()
User-Model
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Sentinel;
class User extends Authenticatable
{
use Notifiable;
protected $fillable = [
'email', 'password',
];
protected $hidden = [
'password',
'remember_token'
];
public function addresses()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\CustomerAddress');
}
}
CustomerAddress-model
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class CustomerAddress extends Model
{
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo('App\User');
}
}
CustomerAddress-controller
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\CustomerAddress;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class CustomerAddressController extends Controller
{
public function create(Request $request)
{
$address = new CustomerAddress();
$address->address = $request['address'];
$request->user()->addresses()->save($address);
}
}
Error appears after this piece of code:
$request->user()->addresses()->save($address);
Any ideas? Thanks and cheers

Answer 1

In .config/cartalyst.sentinel.php, change 'model' => 'Cartalyst\Sentinel\Users\EloquentUser' to 'model' => 'App\User' to use your user model with the addresses relation defined
In ./app/User change User extends Authenticatable to User extends \Cartalyst\Sentinel\Users\EloquentUser to extend sentinel's user to your app's User model
Finally, your controller code should now be
`$address = new CustomerAddress();
$address->address = $request->input('address');
$request->user()->addresses()->save($address);`
and everything should be peachy