Trouble finding my custom asset bundle

Question

I have a custom asset bundle defined in my plugin. My plugin has a controller. The controller has a action:

/**
 * Handle a request going to our plugin's index action URL,
 * e.g.: actions/entries-by-group/entries-by-group
 *
 * @return mixed
 * @throws \yii\base\InvalidConfigException
 */
public function actionIndex()
{
    $this->view->registerAssetBundle(EntriesByGroupAssets::class);
    $result = 'Welcome to the EntriesByGroupController actionIndex() method';

    return $result;
}

As you can see, I am trying to register my asset bundle. I am getting the error:

ReflectionException

Class recoveryfinder\entriesbygroup\assets\EntriesByGroupAssets does not exist

My namespaces are:

namespace recoveryfinder\entriesbygroup\controller;

or in the asset bundle file:

namespace recoveryfinder\entriesbygroup\assets;

My plugin is in a folder called (note the hyphens):

vendor\recoveryfinder\entries-by-group\src\controllers\EntriesByGroupController.php

It seems that when code gets to ClassLoader::LoadClass I get the error referenced above - class does not exist. It looks to me like ClassLoader is using the namespace as the path spec (without the hyphens) rather than the actual location (with the hyphens).

I must need to set paths in my plugin? If not what is wrong here?

Answer 1

The autoloader won't load files in the folder assets as already stated it is all explained here. Your asset bundles should be in a folder called resources otherwise Yii won't register them in its classmap automatically.

Your namespaces must represent your folder structure. The namespace ns\prefix\controller must be for a file in vendor\ns\prefix\src\controller so your namespace ns\prefix\assets will search for a file in ...vendor\ns\prefix\src\assets but you have to include the resource on your own via require_once since Yii won't so it because you are in the wrong folder

The easiest solution would be to create a folder resources and use the namespace ns\prefix\src\resources

Or you can - like stated in the docs - use your plugin root path as well recoveryfinder\entriesbygroup