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Dallin
Dallin

Reputation: 1074

Hide extra relations that are loaded in an accessor

I'm loading relations inside an accessor attribute:

public function getNameAttribute()
{
    return $this->someRelation->name . ' x ' . $this->otherRelation->name;
}

When ->toJson is called when sending data via Http response, the data from these relationships are included, but I only want to include the name attribute.

One solution could be just setting these relationships to hidden, but I'm reluctant to because I worry that will come back to bite me if I need to actually load those relationships.

How can I avoid this "side effect" data when converting my models to an array/json?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 248

Answers (1)

dparoli
dparoli

Reputation: 9161

I have not tried, but from the laravel docs you can use makeHidden() to temporary hide attributes (relations included), i.e.; 

return $model->makeHidden(['someRelation', 'otherRelation'])->toJson();
// or
return $model->makeHidden('someRelation')->makeHidden('otherRelation')->toJson();

Upvotes: 1

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