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Hi!
I'm building an API using Fractal, and my main question (at the moment) is: Where should the logic for includes go?
Following Fractal's example:
public function includeAuthor(Book $book)
{
$author = $book->author;
return $this->item($author, new AuthorTransformer);
}
This logic is simple and contained in the BookTransformer, but what if I have a more complex logic to fetch the items to include? For example, if I want to include all the authors, or the most popular ones, or the main ones? This kind of logic that determine which items should be included...
And what if I want to paginate this authors? With a collection of books with authors included, this would be a mess of pagination (only to save additional http requests)?
Any help would be really appreciated! Thanks!
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