Prompt type for light models

Question

I am trying to write some nice code and some of this type is hinting to make things easier down the line and keep waiting.

This may sound a little far-fetched, but to me it's more of a proof of concept.

I am writing a class to split TSV files into tabs and insert into my model. In my constructor, I asked for:

Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model

To which I passed:

new \App\Model()

And finally, the error response:

instance of App\Model given

Clearly I did something wrong, but I don't want to force the use of App \ Model, how can I in principle request an eloquent model?

Edit for more information:

To make it clearer, I am using Laravel 5, models are created with artisan make: model. The constructor looks like this:

function __construct ($resource, Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model $model, $skip = 0)

And the model I use (for my movie table):

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Movie extends Model {

+3

Fireynis May 22 '15 at 21:10

1 answer

patricus · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-23T04:55:59+0000

In your type hint, the FQCN preface with a backslash:

function __construct ($resource, \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model $model, $skip = 0)

Either this, or add an operator use

to your class:

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class MyClass {
    function __construct ($resource, Model $model, $skip = 0) {
        //
    }
}