Lumen-framework: Enabling withFacades does not enable all Facades

[nathanaherne]

It seems there is a large number of Facades available to Lumen but there is no way of enabling many of them unless you modify the function withFacades. I think it would be better to be able to enable facades from bootstrap/app.php as this is advertised as the only place you need to configure.

[richardkeep]

lol. @GrahamCampbell don't you think it is kinda rude to close issues without giving any reason.

[nathanaherne]

@GrahamCampbell @RichardKeep
Maybe I didn't explain my report well enough. What I am reporting isn't really a code bug, its more of a product bug. In the official documentation we are told that if we want to use facades to enable them in the bootstrap/app.php file. When you do this, you would probably expect to have access to all facades in the /vendor/illuminate/Support/Facades folder (I know I did). I spent a while trying to work out why the File facade wasn't working. I found the method withFacades in /vendor/laravel/lumen-framework/Application.php and noticed that it wasn't enabled just by enabling withFacades in app.php, I had to add the File facade to this function.

This sort of behavior is confusing. If Lumen is going to advertise a single place for configuration, you should get the behavior you expect -> enabling withFacades should enable all facades that can be used with Lumen.

[matteing]

At least there should be a list in the documentation of the facades this function enables, because most of the facades in Laravel are not accessible here, and turning on withFacades does basically nothing...?

[itsjavi]

I also agree that closing this issue without giving a reason was very rude and not professional at all...
anyway, personal opinions apart, I am also trying to understand why does the framework make those assumptions for us, I also want to use other facades, so having this method doesn't make any sense for me, everything could be aliased in bootstrap/app.php... or withFacades could support an array of short facade names like ['Auth', 'Cache', 'DB'] . That would be more flexible.

So, could you consider reopening this issue? Thanks

[crynobone]

and turning on withFacades does basically nothing...?

turning on withFacades inject the application IoC to Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade. Without doing so even if you're importing Illuminate\Support\Facades\File it wouldn't work.

[safrazik]

someone might find it useful:

$app->withFacades(true, [
  'Tymon\JWTAuth\Facades\JWTAuth' => 'JWTAuth'
]);