Issue with Eloquent: API Resources - Conditional Relationships

As far as I can tell, it's perfectly valid.

However, I'm guessing you're still loading the relation somewhere else in your code. Perhaps a $with on the model class, or you're accessing the relationship (attribute) directly.

Yeah, I cannot see anything in the model etc. The docs on this as a little poor IMHO.

I also noticed that the docs don't show route model binding which I would have thought would be what everyone is doing.

@ME@BAYES-SHELTON.CO.UK - Route model binding is in the docs, actually.

But could you perhaps share some more code related to your problem? Could you include your UserResource?

@ME@BAYES-SHELTON.CO.UK - The docs for Route Model Binding are here: https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/routing#route-model-binding

What you could do to backtrack your problem is dd() your user. Does it always load the company? If so, you might have specified an default eager loading property: https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/eloquent-relationships#eager-loading

@DEVFREY - I knew route model binding was still in, I meant they don't show the resource collections using route model binding which seems to be the most logical setup

So my User model is:

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

class User extends Model
{
    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $fillable = [

    ];

    /**
     * The attributes that should be hidden for arrays.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $hidden = [
        'lender_id', 'tranche_id', 'transaction_tranche_id'
    ];

    /**
     * @var array
     */
    protected $guarded = [
        'id', 'uuid'
    ];

    /**
     * The attributes that should be cast to native types.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $casts = [

    ];

    /**
     * The accessors to append to the model's array form.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $appends = [
        //'percent_of_tranche'
    ];

    /**
     * @return string
     */
    public function getRouteKeyName()
    {
        return 'uuid';
    }

    /**
     * Set the user's UUID.
     *
     * @param  string  $value
     * @return void
     */
    public function setUuidAttribute()
    {
        $this->attributes['uuid'] = strtolower(Str::random(10));
    }

    public function company()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo(Company::class);
    }
}

@ME@BAYES-SHELTON.CO.UK - And your UserResource class?

Added to the original message, sorry I had the wrong name.

What's the result of dd($this->getRelations()); in UserResource::toArray()?

Hey @staudenmeir

array:1 [
  "company" => Company {#356
    #fillable: []
    #hidden: array:2 [
      0 => "id"
      1 => "company_id"
    ]
    #guarded: array:2 [
      0 => "id"
      1 => "uuid"
    ]
    #casts: []
    #appends: []
    #connection: "mysql"
    #table: "companies"
    #primaryKey: "id"
    #keyType: "int"
    +incrementing: true
    #with: []
    #withCount: []
    #perPage: 15
    +exists: true
    +wasRecentlyCreated: false
    #attributes: array:8 [
      "id" => 1
      "uuid" => "r7kn4glkqm"
      "name" => "Company Q56"
      "amount" => 57294490005
      "currency" => "EUR"
      "transaction_id" => 1
      "created_at" => "2019-05-16 23:30:14"
      "updated_at" => "2019-05-16 23:30:14"
    ]
    #original: array:8 [
      "id" => 1
      "uuid" => "r7kn4glkqm"
      "name" => "Company Q56"
      "amount" => 57294490005
      "currency" => "EUR"
      "transaction_id" => 1
      "created_at" => "2019-05-16 23:30:14"
      "updated_at" => "2019-05-16 23:30:14"
    ]
    #touches: []
    +timestamps: true
    #visible: []
  }
]```

So I have managed to fix it!!

The relation was loading because I had an attribute on the model that used property from the relation in the model.