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Ben
Ben

Reputation: 62394

Conditional relationship not appearing in Laravel Resource API

I'm trying to use Laravel's API Resources to handle some JSON and I'm not able to conditionally load a relationship, despite it being eager loaded.

My controller:

$games = Game::with('availableInterests')->get();

In my view, I'm json encoding the collection to be used in VueJS

games = @json(new \App\Http\Resources\GameCollection($games)),

GameCollection - unchanged from the class Laravel generated for me.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Resources;

use Illuminate\Http\Resources\Json\ResourceCollection;

class GameCollection extends ResourceCollection
{
    /**
     * Transform the resource collection into an array.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @return array
     */
    public function toArray($request)
    {
        return parent::toArray($request);
    }
}

GameResource

class GameResource extends JsonResource
{
    /**
     * Transform the resource into an array.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @return array
     */
    public function toArray($request)
    {
        return [
            'id' => $this->id,
            'name' => $this->name,
            'thumbnail_url' => $this->thumbnail_url,
            'available_interests' => Interest::collection($this->whenLoaded('availableInterests')),
        ];
    }
}

Game Model's Relationship

public function availableInterests() : BelongsToMany
{
    return $this->belongsToMany(Interest::class);
}

I've tried changing $this->whenLoaded('availableInterests') to $this->whenLoaded('available_interests') with no luck. I've double checked my spelling with no luck.

Why isn't this conditional relationship present in the json?

Even removing $this->whenLoaded() doesn't make this relationship appear.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2103

Answers (1)

CUGreen
CUGreen

Reputation: 3186

I don't think you need GameCollection in this case.

I would try doing this:

InterestResource.php (create new class)

class InterestResource extends JsonResource
{
    /**
     * Transform the resource into an array.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @return array
     */
    public function toArray($request)
    {
        return parent::toArray($request);
        // or what ever array structure you want
    }
}

GameResource.php

class GameResource extends JsonResource
{
    /**
     * Transform the resource into an array.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @return array
     */
    public function toArray($request)
    {
        return [
            'id' => $this->id,
            'name' => $this->name,
            'thumbnail_url' => $this->thumbnail_url,
            'available_interests' => InterestResource::collection($this->whenLoaded('availableInterests')),
        ];
    }
}

Your Controller

$games = Game::with('availableInterests')->get();

Your View

games = @json(\App\Http\Resources\GameResource::collection($games)),

Upvotes: 1

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