Widget class must extend Arrilot\Widgets\AbstractWidget class

[bsh314]

I was having trouble getting Widgets work on Laravel 5.1. My app runs throw ErrorException, this is it:

ErrorException in AbstractWidgetFactory.php line 122:
Widget class must extend Arrilot\Widgets\AbstractWidget class (View: /home/vagrant/Code/Laravel/resources/views/welcome.blade.php)

My Widget Class was created with artisan command 'artisan make:widget Input'
and it extends AbstractWidget from Arrilot\Widgets\AbstractWidget. So here is class:

<?php namespace App\Widgets;

use Arrilot\Widgets\AbstractWidget;

class Input extends AbstractWidget {
    protected $config = [
        'type' => 'text'
    ];
    public function run()
    {
        return view("widgets.input", [
            'config' => $this->config,
        ]);
    }
}

What can it be?
Thanks!

[arrilot]

How do you call the widget in a view? Looks like you pass something wrong there

[zorx]

maybe you already have an Input class, because of this :

    $widgetClass = class_exists($this->widgetName)
        ? $this->widgetName
        : $rootNamespace.'\\'.$this->widgetName;

so if you already have an Input class, laravel-widgets will load it and then throw the exception :

    $widget = new $widgetClass($this->widgetConfig);
    if ($widget instanceof AbstractWidget === false) {
        throw new InvalidWidgetClassException();
    }

you have to create another widgetName or use namespace in your default Input class

[arrilot]

huh, In fact that's unexpected.

I've tweaked some stuff to prevent that.

Fixed in 3.1.2

[arrilot]

ty for your help @zorx

[bsh314]

Thanks @zorx & @arrilot ! Tomorow i'll try to update & post the result!

[bsh314]

Yep, changing Widget Class name is a valid sulution.