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Crap, just realized i have to define the column foreign key now.
return $this->belongsTo(Student::class, 'student_id')->withTrashed();
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I'm using soft delete for my Student::class model.
I want to retrieve the soft deleted model in my booking log like this:
Booking::class
// Normal relationship works when student is not softdeleted
public function student()
{
return $this->belongsTo(Student::class);
}
// This doesn't work, returns null
public function studentRecord()
{
return $this->belongsTo(Student::class)->withTrashed();
}
// This temp patch method works but i can not use with Eager loading
public function studentRecordTemp()
{
return Student::withTrashed()->find($this->student_id);
}
I really can not understand why the second one is returning null. The student_id is defined if i dump the Booking model.
Thanks
@bufferoverflow try to specify keys
public function studentRecord()
{
return $this->belongsTo(Student::class, 'student_id')->withTrashed();
}
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