php - Laravel Form Request not being passed to argument -

i'm busy migrating app laravel 4.2 5.1, , experiencing issue form requests. it's simple i'm missing - not sure.

the method below meant attempt sign in if signinrequest authorises request. however, if validation passes, signinrequest not passed attemptsignin, throws process off error:

argument 2 passed app\http\controllers\auth\authcontroller::attemptsignin() must instance of app\http\requests\signinrequest, none given

this method (controller authcontroller) in question, tries sign in using username or email address:

public function attemptsignin($type = 'regular', signinrequest $request) {     switch ($type) {         case 'regular':             $identifierfieldname = 'account_identifier';             $field = filter_var($request->input($identifierfieldname), filter_validate_email) ? 'email' : 'username';             $request->merge([$field => $request->input($identifierfieldname)]);             $specifics = $request->only($field, 'passphrase');             $specifics['activated'] = (int) true;             if ($this->auth->attempt($specifics)) {                 return redirect()->intended($this->redirectpath);             } else {                 return redirect($this->signinpath)                     ->with('autherror', "the credentials you've provided incorrect.")                     ->with('autherrortype', 'warning')                     ->withinput($request->only($identifierfieldname))                     ->witherrors();             }             break;          case 'oota':              break;          default:             return redirect($this->signinpath);             break;     } } 

the form request straight-forward, specifying rules, messages , authorize (return true).

if validation fails, however, signinrequest passed method, , errors shown accordingly.

am missing here?

use \path\to\your\classrequest myrequest 

or

protected $myrequest;  public function __construct(\path\to\your\classrequest $request){    $this -> myrequest = $request; // use directly in method or method } 

hope help.

public function post_form(myrequest $request) {   code here  }