Laravel5 dependency injection on Model

Question

I have an Eloquent Model called Surface which is dependent on a ZipCodeRepository object:

class Surface extends Model{
    public function __construct(ZipCodeRepositoryInterface $zipCode){...}

and an Address object that hasMany surfaces.

class Address extends Model{
    public surfaces() { return $this->hasMany('App/Surface'); }
}

My issue is when I call $address->surfaces I get the following error:

Argument 1 passed to App\Surface::__construct() must be an instance of App\Repositories\ZipCodeRepositoryInterface, none given

I thought the IoC would automatically inject that.

Answer 1

Thanks to @svmm for referencing the question mentioned in the comments. I found that you cannot use dependency injection on Models because you would have to change the signature on the constructor which doesn't work with the Eloquent framework.

What I did as an intermediate step, while refactoring the code, is use App::make in the constructor to create the object, such as:

class Surface extends Model{
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->zipCode = App::make('App\Repositories\ZipCodeRepositoryInterface');
    }

That way the IoC will still grab the implemented repository. I am only doing this until I can pull the functions into the repository to remove the dependency.