Overriding Twill internal classes

[pboivin]

Hey! This won't be groundbreaking for experienced Laravel developers but I've just realized probably the easiest (and safest) way to override some of Twill's internals through dependency injection. Here's an example with Twill's UserController.

First, add a class into your project extending the base UserController :

// file: app/Http/Controllers/Admin/AppUserController.php


use A17\Twill\Http\Controllers\Admin\UserController;

class AppUserController extends UserController
{
    // customize anything here
}

Then, register the binding in your AppServiceProvider :

// file: app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php


use A17\Twill\Http\Controllers\Admin\UserController;
use App\Http\Controllers\Admin\AppUserController;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    public function register()
    {
        $this->app->bind(UserController::class, AppUserController::class);
    }
}

And that's it! This is not a silver bullet... you'll probably hit the limits of this approach very quickly. But, as far as this quick experiment went, I could override the user model, controller and request.

Have fun :)