Laravel: changing the location of the Exception handler class

Question

We are restructuring the folder layout of our application so it aligns more with the DDD domain driver design idea.

e.g.

/app
   /Users
   /Jobs
   /Authentication
   /Http
   /Console
   /...
/bootstrap
/config
/...

Although one problem we are having is relocating the /Exceptions/Handler.php class. Our view would rename it to ExceptionHandler and place it in the root of the /app directory.

We get

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ReflectionException: Class App\Exceptions\Handler does not exist ...

errors after relocating it.

Im assuming Laravel has a hard dependancy on that file being in that EXACT location, is that correct?

Answer 1

You also have to update it's binding in the service container. Example below is from Laravel 5.2 but I'm guessing it should be the same for all Laravel 5+.

// bootstrap/app.php
$app->singleton(
    Illuminate\Contracts\Debug\ExceptionHandler::class,
    App\Exceptions\Handler::class // Change this line with the new namespace
);