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Victor
Victor

Reputation: 5353

Return created_at and updated_at as timestamps in API (Laravel 5)

I need to return created_at and updated_at attributes in timestamp format but only for my API methods. I don't want to manually loop through results and modify them as I return a lot of relationships so I guess it's not a good way to handle that.

If I set access mutators then everywhere in my app I'll get the dates in timestamps and I'm not sure if that is what I want. Also this is not a good solution since I'll set mutators for each model only because I need to output them in API.

Is there a way to handle that without manually looping through the big response I have and applying Carbon::parse($value)->timestamp; to all dates?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1713

Answers (1)

Luki
Luki

Reputation: 214

How about simply overriding Eloquent's method?

/**
 * @inheritdoc
 */
protected function serializeDate(\DateTime $date)
{
    return $date->getTimestamp();
}

Upvotes: 1

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