Magento 2 – Add Additional Constructor Argument to Widget Block Class

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I'm trying to create a custom widget by extending the existing "Banner Rotator" widget. Something similar to this.

I placed the widget.xml in my module and created a class extending \Magento\Banner\Block\Widget\Banner. Then my custom widget started to appear in BO and works fine (works just like the Magento widget because I haven't customized it yet).

Now I intend to do some additional manipulations to the rotator using the applied layered navigation filters. To do that I'm trying to inject the \Magento\Catalog\Model\Layer\Resolver in to my class. But it fails with this error message.

Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Argument 4 passed to
MyNamespace\Module\Block\Widget\Banner::__construct() must be an
instance of Magento\Catalog\Model\Layer\Resolver, none given, called
in
/var/www/html/var/generation/MyNamespace/Module/Block/Widget/Banner/Interceptor.php
on line 14 and defined in
/var/www/html/app/code/MyNamespace/Module/Block/Widget/Banner.php on
line 12

Looks like I cannot have a fourth argument in my class.

My class looks like below.

namespace MyNamespace\Module\Block\Widget;


class Banner extends \Magento\Banner\Block\Widget\Banner
{
protected $layerResolver;

public function __construct(
    \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\Context $context,
    \Magento\Banner\Model\ResourceModel\Banner $resource,
    array $data = [],
    \Magento\Catalog\Model\Layer\Resolver $resolver
)
{
    parent::__construct(
        $context,
        $resource,
        []
    );
    $this->layerResolver = $resolver;
}
}

How do I add the 4th argument?

Best Answer

You just need to delete var/generation folder because every time when you construct new class in __construct() function. Magento 2 create Interceptor.php with constucted class.

For example you have controller at

app/code/Vendor/Module/Controller/MyController.php

For this controller Magento 2 create Interceptor.php at

var/generation/Vendor/Module/Controller/MyController/Interceptor.php

So when you refresh second time Magento 2 look for construct class in Interceptor.php. So when you construct new class in controller you need to delete old constructed class in var/generation folder manually or by this command:

sudo rm -rf var/generation/*

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