Yeh, groups don't inherit in lumen, so you need to define the namespace over and over inside nested groups.

Won't this be fixed?

I also ran into this. It is not intuitive that this is the case and feels like a bug. At very least the documentation needs to be updated to mention this (if it is already mentioned, it needs mentioning again on the routes page). It is especially confusing as the namespace is set in app.php, so it isn't obvious that routes.php is actually already within a group unless you've dived a bit deeper into how things work.

I also feel that this needs to be better documented.

This example here suggests that namespaces are inherited and a developer should "register controller routes without specifying the full App\Http\Controllers namespace prefix.", but this is not the case (at least) with the default namespace group in bootstrap/app.php.

I'm defining an additional group in routes.php for routes that should get the auth middleware. I could apply the middleware to the default namespace group in bootstrap/app.php, but that would mean all routes will require authentication and I was hoping to define that more down the road in routes.php.

@bogdanghervan +1

@bogdanghervan +1
so the documentation not in sync with codes. here i thought that my env is broken.

What's the resolution for this? its become unintuitive

@geocine looks like this was fixed, can you close this issue?