Laravel-medialibrary: Return value of Spatie\MediaLibrary\PathGenerator\BasePathGenerator::getBasePath() must be of the type string, null returned

[sudipt0]

Getting an error in Laravel 6.2

Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalThrowableError
Return value of Spatie\MediaLibrary\PathGenerator\BasePathGenerator::getBasePath() must be of the type string, null returned

vendor/spatie/laravel-medialibrary/src/PathGenerator/BasePathGenerator.php:39

[freekmurze]

The tests prove that the latest version of this package is working perfectly. Could you try installing the latest version of the pacakge in a vanilla laravel app and check if you are having problems there?

[danteYuX]

I have the same error in Lumen 6.2.0
Return value of Spatie\MediaLibrary\PathGenerator\BasePathGenerator::getBasePath() must be of the type string, null returned in .... /vendor/spatie/laravel-medialibrary/src/PathGenerator/BasePathGenerator.php:39

[myckhel]

I got same error when i tried to use custom model
e.g New Model

checking this issue made me try the normal model and it worked https://github.com/spatie/laravel-medialibrary/issues/1036#issue-313783509

I dont know if its the same in your case.

[Bubalubs]

I had this error and it occurred because I didn't save the model first $model->save() before creating media to attach and calling $media->getUrl()

So check to make sure you save the model first and it exists in the database if you are calling that method.

[aliraza93]

I'm having the same error in Laravel 7.0 while uploading image
The data gets uploaded in the database but image isn't saved and I get this error

Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalThrowableError
Return value of Spatie\MediaLibrary\PathGenerator\BasePathGenerator::getBasePath() must be of the type string, null returned

[josegus]

Same here, it happends when using a CustomMedia model and you save the parent model.

[ethanclevenger91]

I seem to be having this issue when casting the result of toMediaCollection() to a string. For example, in a controller, if I do:

return $model->addMedia($file)
   ->toMediaCollectionOnCloudDisk($media_collection);

That error crops up.

[freekmurze]

Improvements on this were made in the latest version of the medialib. If possible, upgrade to the latest version.

[shirshak55]

Is there still error. I got similar issue where getBasePath returns null .

Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaCollections\Models\Media {#1593
  #table: "media"
  #guarded: []
  #casts: array:3 [
    "manipulations" => "array"
    "custom_properties" => "array"
    "responsive_images" => "array"
  ]
  #connection: null
  #primaryKey: "id"
  #keyType: "int"
  +incrementing: true
  #with: []
  #withCount: []
  #perPage: 15
  +exists: false
  +wasRecentlyCreated: false
  #attributes: array:10 [
    "name" => "newPhoto"
    "file_name" => "newPhoto.jpg"
    "disk" => "media"
    "conversions_disk" => "media"
    "collection_name" => "51620baf-7e05-4e72-b9a3-176a2cc419d0"
    "mime_type" => "image/jpeg"
    "size" => 29425
    "custom_properties" => "[]"
    "responsive_images" => "[]"
    "manipulations" => "[]"
  ]
  #original: []
  #changes: []
  #classCastCache: []
  #dates: []
  #dateFormat: null
  #appends: []
  #dispatchesEvents: []
  #observables: []
  #relations: []
  #touches: []
  +timestamps: true
  #hidden: []
  #visible: []
  #fillable: []
}

Here is the error resp

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