Laravel Custom Facade New Instance

Question

Working on my first laravel package and running into trouble with how my Facade works, currently my use looks something like this:

{!! Custom::showValue() !}} //returns "default"

{!! Custom::setValue('test')->showValue() !}} //returns "test"

{!! Custom::showValue() !}} //returns "test"

I would expect the last element to go be a new class instance, as I've used bind instead of singleton when setting up my service provider:

public function register()
    {
        $this->registerCustom();
    }

public function registerCustom(){
    $this->app->bind('custom',function() {
        return new Custom();
    });
}

Is there something else I need to do to make it so every facade call to "Custom" returns a new class instance?

Answer 1

As @maiorano84 mentioned you can not do this with Facades out of the box.

To answer your question, to make your Custom facade return a new instance you could add the following method to it:

/**
 * Resolve a new instance for the facade
 *
 * @return mixed
 */
public static function refresh()
{
    static::clearResolvedInstance(static::getFacadeAccessor());

    return static::getFacadeRoot();
}

Then you could call:

Custom::refresh()->showValue();

(Obviously, you can call refresh something else if you want to)

One alternative to this would be to use the app() global function that comes with Laravel to resolve a new instance i.e.

app('custom')->showValue();

Hope this helps!