Call to undefined method Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput::createProgressBar()

[JenuelDev]

$bar = $this->output->createProgressBar($count);

Their is an error running this on external class..

// this is like a sample commnad in commands
...
handle() {
        $this->info('Setting Up Transfer...');
        $stripeSubscriptionTransfer = new TransferActiveStripeSubscriptionToEmr(); // this has the $this->output->createProgressBar($count); in it
        $this->info('Executing Transfer Function..');
        $stripeSubscriptionTransfer->transfer();
}
...

[Sophist-UK]

It might help if you could post the exception traceback.

[JenuelDev]

Oops, I finally solved it, I did not check the traceback.

[JenuelDev]

So for those who having with this one this is how I solved it.

So I created a command with a handle with something like this.

// this is sample handle from the command which can
// be found in app\Console\Commands after creating command `php artisan make:command <name>`

...
public function handle() {
       (new ExampleClassHere())->sampleFunctionHere();
}
...

and in that class

// we need to extend our commands this way we
// can use $this->info,$this->line() etc. to write console output
use Illuminate\Console\Command; 
use Symfony\Component\Console\Helper\ProgressBar;

class ExampleClassHere extends Command {
    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
        // I dont know but it seems like we need to set this on the
        // construct for the console ouput functions to work properly.
        $this->output = new \Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput();
    }

    // so this is how I solved the progress bar error
    public function sampleFunctionHere() {
        /** 
            $bar = $this->output->createProgressBar($count); -> this is having problems to me,
            it throws an error that the createProgressBar function is undefined. So I have no choice,
            so I have to grab some class on the Symfony, which is ProgressBar and imported it. Now I can use it like this.
           See code sample bellow.
        */

        $datas = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0]
        $count = count($data);
        $bar = new ProgressBar($this->output,$count);

        $bar->start(); // to start the progress bar

        foreach($datas as $data) {
             // your methods here or any thing you can add here
             $bar->advance(); // to add progress to progress bar
        }

        $bar->finish(); // to finish the progress bar
    }

}

[henzeb]

Or you use my package henzeb/laravel-console-facade.

https://github.com/henzeb/laravel-console-facade