assignRole() does not work, but roles->attach() does

[jvalentinei]

I am attempting to set up laravel acl, and ran across an issue with assignRole().

I am running laravel 5.2 and acl 0.1.3

Here is unit test code to illustrate the issue:

$roleAdmin = new Role(); $roleAdmin->name = 'Administrator'; $roleAdmin->slug = 'administrator'; $roleAdmin->description = 'manage administration privileges'; $roleAdmin->save();

$user = User::find(1);

$user->roles()->attach($roleAdmin->id); $this->assertTrue($user->is('administrator')); // test passes

$user = User::find(2); $user->assignRole($roleAdmin); $this->assertTrue($user->is('administrator')); // test fails

Note that this includes the most recent pull request that updates HasRole::is() to use contains() rather than in_array(), otherwise it throws an exception.

Please let me know what the issue might be or if more information is needed to figure out the issue.

[nelson6e65]

I'm having this issue too. syncRoles() works, but assignRole() doesn't. 😞

[nelson6e65]

Well... I noticed I had to re-query the user to get the updated roles:

<?php
$user = User::first();

$user->syncRoles(['dev']);
$user->assignRole('customer');

$user2 = User::first();

dd($user->getRoles(), $user2->getRoles());

Outputs:

array:1 [
  0 => "dev"
]
array:2 [
  0 => "dev"
  1 => "customer"
]