php - in laravel 8 with seeding , i has this issue Target class [TableSeeder] does not exist

Question

IlluminateContractsContainerBindingResolutionException

  Target class [DatabaseSeedersCountriesTableSeeder] does not exist.

  at C:......logvendorlaravelframeworksrcIlluminateContainerContainer.php:811
    807▕
    808▕         try {
    809▕             $reflector = new ReflectionClass($concrete);
    810▕         } catch (ReflectionException $e) {
  ? 811▕             throw new BindingResolutionException("Target class [$concrete] does not exist.", 0, $e);
    812▕         }
    813▕
    814▕         // If the type is not instantiable, the developer is attempting to resolve
    815▕         // an abstract type such as an Interface or Abstract Class and there is

  1   C:......logvendorlaravelframeworksrcIlluminateContainerContainer.php:809
      ReflectionException::("Class DatabaseSeedersCountriesTableSeeder does not exist")

  2   C:......logvendorlaravelframeworksrcIlluminateContainerContainer.php:809
      ReflectionClass::__construct("DatabaseSeedersCountriesTableSeeder")

Answer 1

From laravel 8 Seeders and factories are now namespaced

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To accommodate for these changes, add DatabaseSeeders namespace to your seeder classes.

namespace DatabaseSeeders;

In addition, move all seeder files from previous database/seeds directory to database/seeders folder.

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In your case remove all lines started with use DatabaseSeeders...
from DatabaseSeeder.php file

It should solve the issue,

You can also run dump-autoload & fresh migration with seed,

composer dump-autoload

php artisan migrate:fresh --seed