ResetsPasswords trait not working as expected in Laravel 5.2 - php

Question

I followed the instructions here
https://laraveltips.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/how-to-make-user-login-and-registration-laravel-5-1/
for setting up login and registration.
Login and registration works correctly, but when I click on Forgot Password, I get the following exception :
ErrorException in ResetsPasswords.php line 104: Argument 1 passed to
App\Http\Controllers\Auth\PasswordController::showResetForm() must be
an instance of Illuminate\Http\Request, null given, called in
ResetsPasswords.php on line 92 and defined
Not sure what is causing this since the request object seems to be getting passed in correctly
public function getReset($token = null)
{
return $this->showResetForm($token);
}
I am running laravel 5.2.6

Answer 1

If it says it needs 'an instance of Illuminate\Http\Request' then pass it one.
public function getReset(Request $request, $token = null)
{
return $this->showResetForm($request, $token);
}

Answer 2

In the laravel 5.2.6 tag there seems to be a bug in the ResetsPassword trait I had the some problem lookup the ResetsPassword.php on github and use the tag v5.2.6 and you will see that the Request is not passed to the showResetForm method you can fix this by manually adding it to the ResetsPassword trait but it would be better to just checkout laravel 5.2 in your composer file.
So in your composer.json it now probably looks like this for you.
"laravel/framework": "5.2.*"
But when you change it to
"laravel/framework": "5.2"
and run composer update
It should be fine atleast it worked for me. An alternative is to use the solution lagbox provided but then you have to change it manually on your server.