[Bug] Filters not working as it does not find views

[iamraju]

Bug report

Filters are not working.

What I did

I did upgraded from 4.0 to 4.1, I tried all the steps mentioned in the documentation and tried to visit my listing page (ListOperation). I have couple fields to be available to search/filter.

What I expected to happen

I had expected to work the filters as it is working with 4.0.

What happened

In ListOperation (Listing page), I found the following error message:

InvalidArgumentException
View [text] not found. (View: resources/views/vendor/backpack/crud/inc/filters_navbar.blade.php)

What I've already tried to fix it

When I tried to look at file filters_navbar.blade.php, there is a loop:

@foreach ($crud->filters() as $filter)
    @include($filter->view)
@endforeach

Here $filter->view is returning only view name i.e. text, select2, etc, rather it expects something like crud:filters.text. I found the Trait Filters has been modified a lot and I did not find extra classes in it.

Backpack, Laravel, PHP, DB version

When I run php artisan backpack:version the output is:

PHP 7.4.8 (cli) (built: Jul 13 2020 16:46:22) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.4.8, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

### LARAVEL VERSION:
v7.22.4@30e851a2b3a2af73fba0b7f4fa22b04260db98e7

### BACKPACK VERSION:
4.0.61@1977e0cc52fa7cf9547eaeadf03f5cd88402b574

Not sure what I missed to perform.

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[pxpm]

Hello @iamraju

Actually the code for getting the filters is:

CRUD/src/resources/views/crud/inc/filters_navbar.blade.php

Line 12 in 15e921d

@foreach ($crud->filters() as $filter)

    			@foreach ($crud->filters() as $filter)
    				@include($filter->getViewWithNamespace())
    			@endforeach

My guess is that you have that file published and backpack is picking the one you override in resources instead of the one in the package.

It could be a cache problem php artisan cache:clear or some composer issue. Try composer dump-autoload.

I don't think this is a bug, so I am going to close this. If you still feel this is a bug, please re-open.

Best,
Pedro

[iamraju]

Hi There,

Thanks for taking care of the issue I posted.

Yes, later I found that the code is changed but strange part is; even when published new views, is there a way to re-publish all the view files ? I see a command backpack:publish <subpath> for publishing one particular view though.

[pxpm]

@iamraju There is no command to publish all the the Backpack view files. I don't think publishing ALL Bacpack views is a good pratice. I think publishing only the ones you are going to change makes more sense.

Best,
Pedro

[iamraju]

@pxpm I do totally agree in general it is not good to publish all but I am not sure what files are/were modified and hence I just wanted to republish all.

Now the filter fields problem resolved, it works but now buttons giving trouble. Like I cannot see button to Create New model in the listing page. I tried re-publishing the crud/inc/button_stack file but that did not help.

By the way, one small correction you guys need to make is; the example in arguments of the command backpack:publish says fields/text but that did not help in case of inc/button_stack instead I had to do crud/inc/button_stack

Thank you again for responding.

[pxpm]

@iamraju if you are not doing customization in the files you could just delete them from your resources folder and backpack will pick the ones in the package. It's kind of the same of publishing all files and overwrite the changes so ...

About the publishing you should look at backpack folder structure and give the appropriate path to the file you want to publish. fields/text is just an example for the text field.

Best,
Pedro

[iamraju]

Thanks @pxpm for continuous reply !

But even when I deleted all the published files/folders, I cannot see buttons, not sure where and what happened. I am exploring myself the codebase but if you have any direction to point to, that would save my time !

[pxpm]

My guess then is that you need to re-publish backpack assets and clear caches.

Check step 13 of upgrade guide: https://backpackforlaravel.com/docs/4.1/upgrade-guide#step-13

Then clear your caches: php artisan view:clear

Best,
Pedro

[iamraju]

That did not help either. I tried that running the commands in step 13.

Actually I tried dd($this->crud->buttons()); in setup() function of a controller lets say EmployeesCrudController then it returns :

Illuminate\Support\Collection {#2343 ▼
  #items: []
}

So it should be something in the framework itself or another doubt permission stuffs on which I am yet to check in details.

By the way, this is happening only in my upgraded project (4.0 to 4.1), but it is working in fresh/new installation.