[tihomiro]

Problem

Seeders generated with --prerun / --postrun event hooks fatal at runtime with Error: Class "Database\Seeders\Exception" not found (and the same for Event and the user's event class).

The injected hook code uses unqualified class names:

$response = Event::until(new App\Events\SomeEvent());
if ($response === false) {
    throw new Exception("Prerun event failed, seed wasn't executed!");
}

Since these are emitted inside the stub's namespace Database\Seeders;, PHP resolves them relative to that namespace (Database\Seeders\Event, Database\Seeders\Exception, Database\Seeders\App\Events\SomeEvent) — none of which exist — so the seeder fatals.

Why it went unnoticed

This is a regression from commit 4599ed3 (Oct 2020), which added namespace Database\Seeders; to the seed stub but touched only the .stub files. The event-injection code dates from 2016, when seeders lived in the global namespace where Event/Exception resolved correctly. The combination of the namespaced stub and the rarely-used --prerun/--postrun options is uncommon enough that nobody hit it.

Fix

Prefix the injected Event facade, base Exception, and the user-supplied event class with a leading backslash so they resolve from the global namespace — matching the already-correct \DB:: calls in the same stub.

-$response = Event::until(new $prerunEvent());
+$response = \Event::until(new \$prerunEvent());
...
-throw new Exception("Prerun event failed, seed wasn't executed!");
+throw new \Exception("Prerun event failed, seed wasn't executed!");

Tests

• Adds testPrerunPostrunEventsAreNamespaceSafe, which asserts the fully-qualified output and loads + executes the generated seeder to prove it no longer fatals. (Fails on the old code, passes on the fix.)
• Full suite green (7/7).

Manual verification (Laravel 10.48.28, PHP 8.3, MySQL)

• Common path iseed users — generates, lints, db:seed runs. ✅
• Event path iseed users --prerun='App\Events\SomePrerunEvent' --postrun='App\Events\SomePostrunEvent' — emits \Event::until(new \App\Events\SomePrerunEvent()), lints, runs without fatal, both hooks fire. ✅