Laravel: Class 'Google_Client' not found

Question

I'm trying to use google-api-php-client in my laravel project.

I'm installed the package using "composer require google/apiclient" command and also added the following line in composer.json.

    {
       "autoload": {
            "classmap": [
                "vendor/google/apiclient/src/Google"
            ],
        }
    }

and run this command too "composer dump-autoload"

But whenever i try to create new Google Client object, it keeps returning fatal error : Google_Client not found.

Can anybody help me with this issue?.Thanks.

I have already tried following ways.
(1) use Google_Client;
(2) $client = new Google_Client;
(3) $client = new \Google_Client;

Answer 1

Google_Client, Google_Service_YouTube etc are aliases to Google\Client and Google\Service\Youtube respectively. To import them, use:

use Google\Client as Google_Client;
use Google\Service\YouTube as Google_Service_YouTube;