Model Class does not exist on relationship

Created 7 years ago by emergingdzns

I've been struggling all day with something that frankly should just work. I'm building a module. One of the fields in a particular stream (called owner) is a user relationship field. In the interface on the front end of the site, the user is supposed to be able to enable the "owner" record, which in my controller is supposed to reference the model, assign values to a few fields, and then save that record. See the code below for example:

<?php namespace My\CustomModule\Http\Controller;
use Auth;
use Input;
use Response;
use My\CustomModule\Owner\Contract\OwnerRepositoryInterface;
use My\CustomModule\Owner\OwnerModel;

class BaseController extends PublicController
{
    public function addOwnerRecord($role) {
        $newRecord = new OwnerModel;
        $newRecord->one_example_field = strtoupper(str_random(6));
        $newRecord->user = Auth::user()->id;
        //also tried this: $newRecord->user_id = Auth::user()->id;
        //also tried this: $newRecord->user = Auth::user();
        $newRecord->save();
        return Response::json(['result' => 'success']);
    }
}
?>

Here's how I'm defining the user field:

        'user' => [
            'type'   => 'anomaly.field_type.relationship',
            'config' => [
                'mode'     => 'lookup',
                'relation' => UserModel::class,
            ],
        ],

No matter what I've tried, I get this:

local.ERROR: ReflectionException: Class  does not exist in /path/to/my/pyro/site/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:749
Stack trace:
#0 /path/to/my/pyro/site/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(749): ReflectionClass->__construct('')
#1 /path/to/my/pyro/site/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(644): Illuminate\Container\Container->build(NULL, Array)
#2 /path/to/my/pyro/site/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php(709): Illuminate\Container\Container->make(NULL, Array)
#3 /path/to/my/pyro/site/core/anomaly/relationship-field_type/src/RelationshipFieldType.php(185): Illuminate\Foundation\Application->make(NULL)
#4 /path/to/my/pyro/site/core/anomaly/relationship-field_type/src/RelationshipFieldType.php(173): Anomaly\RelationshipFieldType\RelationshipFieldType->getRelatedModel()
#5 /path/to/my/pyro/site/storage/streams/default/models/Horses/HorsesOwnersEntryModel.php(273): Anomaly\RelationshipFieldType\RelationshipFieldType->getRelation()
#6 /path/to/my/pyro/site/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php(2706): Anomaly\Streams\Platform\Model\Horses\HorsesOwnersEntryModel->user()
#7 /path/to/my/pyro/site/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php(2679): Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model->getRelationshipFromMethod('user')
... (many many more but this is where it gets interesting)

So it always seems to have something to do with the user relationship but even if I comment out the line where I assign the user to the model in the controller, (in the example above) I still get the same stack trace where it's looking at the user relationship. This tells me it MUST be seeing the owner model/class. But the error doesn't say WHAT class is missing.

Any thoughts?