Method in controller does not exist error – Laravel 9

July 25, 2023

I have defined the route in web.php

Route::name('complaints.')->prefix('complaints')->group(function() {
    Route::get('/', [ComplaintController::class, 'index'])
        ->middleware('auth')
        ->name('index');
    
    Route::get('/get-candidates', [ComplaintController::class, 'get-candidates'])
        ->middleware('auth')
        ->name('get-candidates');

});

And have created this method in ComplaintController

public function getCandidates(Request $request){   

    $candidatenames = [];

    echo json_encode($candidatenames);
    
 }

But when I try to access this url http://localhost/complaints/get-candidates i get this error Method App\Http\Controllers\ComplaintController::get-candidates does not exist.

What I am doing wrong?

>Solution :

Change either
Route::get('/get-candidates', [ComplaintController::class, 'get-candidates']) to
Route::get('/get-candidates', [ComplaintController::class, 'getCandidates']) or change your function name from getCandidates to get-candidates