Error with laravel: Trying to get property 'id' of non-object

I'm fairly new to Laravel, but I'm trying to make a small API for my course. I've got this route Route::get('films/search', 'App\Http\Controllers\FilmController@search'); which calls my custom function search which get as a parameter a Request. Here it is:

    public function search(Request $request)      {          $keyword = $request->input('keyword');          $rating = $request->input('rating');          $minLength = $request->input('minLength');          $maxLength = $request->input('maxLength');            if ($this->isParamExisting($keyword)) {              return $this->getFromKeyword($keyword);          } elseif ($this->isParamExisting($rating)) {              return $this->getRatings($rating);          } elseif ($this->isParamExisting($minLength)) {              return $this->getMinLength($minLength);          } elseif ($this->isParamExisting($maxLength)) {              return $this->getMaxLength($maxLength);          } else {              return $this->getAllFilms();          }      }  

At first it was working, but thenm I added joins in my models for other foreign keys and now it gives me Trying to get property 'id' of non-object and says it comes from my resource which is also used by my index method which works. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work.

It may come from my route since when I put @index instead of my custom method it still gives me the error message. And I know my index works, because I'm using it on another route and there is no problem.

Solution:

The problem was coming from one of my other routes. I add one which used films/{id} and the system thought that search was used as an {id}. I changed my route for Route::get('films/search/param', 'App\Http\Controllers\FilmController@search');

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66510960/error-with-laravel-trying-to-get-property-id-of-non-object March 07, 2021 at 05:48AM