Incorrect path to S3 flysystem adapter in Laravel 5

Question

I'm having an issue with Laravel 5's filesystem when uploading files to an S3 bucket. The line that is running to the filesystem is:

Storage::disk('s3')->put($slug, $img);

It works as it should for:

Storage::disk('local')->put($slug, $img);

But when I change the disk to S3 it throws the following error:

Class 'League\Flysystem\AwsS3v3\AwsS3Adapter' not found

As per the L5 docs, I have the following requirement in my composer.json

"league/flysystem-aws-s3-v2": "~1.0"

which installed league's aws flysystem adapter under:

League\flysystem-aws-s3-v2\

I have tried updating the path in the fileSystemManager.php in the filesystem vendor folder to the aws flysystem installation path but it still doesn't work. I can't seem to find anyone else who has experienced this behaviour.

A fresh pair of eyes or a knowledgeable head who might know more about Laravel than I would be great. I really can't seem to the issue.

UPDATE

I did a fresh install of the aws flysystem and not I get the following:

ErrorException in Util.php line 250:
fstat() expects parameter 1 to be resource, object given

Answer 1

Ok so I fixed the initial issue by removing aws/aws-sdk-php : "^2.8.* that I had in my composer.json and ran a fresh 'composer require league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3 ~1.0'. This fixed the initial error in finding the S3 flysystem.

The second error fstat() expects parameter 1 to be resource, object given related to my attempt to pass an image object to the put method:

Storage::disk('s3')->put($slug, $img);

when it expects a string. This was fixed by stringifying the $img object

Storage::disk('s3')->put($slug, $img->__toString());

Hope this helps somebody else who might encounter this issue.