Paged Resource Collection not working

So I'm not sure, but I think you need to wrap your data in an array to actually make the pagination work. The thing is that it will add extra meta data for pagination and therefore it should be in it's own wrapper

// ClientCollection.php

public function toArray($request)
{
    return [
        'data' => parent::toArray($request),
    ];
}

You can enable withoutWrapping as well, but with pagination that doesn't work because you always have the extra meta data!

Let me know if this works for you!

you also need to say how many records in each page, eg ->paginate(2)

I forgot to put it on the code sample but I paginate the results 15 items per page that seems to have no effect whatsoever. I also tried wrapping the collection on the data key and it gets returned inside that key in the JSON response but the links and meta keys are still missing

Perhaps not related, but what does this do ?

    public function toArray($request)
        {
            return parent::toArray($request);
        }

Did you read the section on toJson with paginator

https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/pagination#displaying-pagination-results

Hi, Snapey. The mehtod simply calls the toArray method on the App\Client model that is it returns all the fields the model have as they are structured in the database. And yes I've read the pagination documentation, as you can see you can return the paginator as a response and it would be converted to JSON the problem is that is not the format I want with the links in a links key and the meta data in the meta key but I guess I could do that work in the Resource if that's the only way Thank you for replying

I've found the solution. Turns out the problem was that I was returning the collection with the response helper and I'm not sure why but that removes all the structure the resource give to the data. So to solve it simply return the collection from the controller like so

    public function index()
        {
            $clients = Client::paginate(15);

            return new ClientCollection($clients);
        } 

@sgtpepper THANK YOU. I was looking for answers but could not find it. Indeed you cannot use response()->json()

You can customize your pagination instead

ClientCollection.php

public function toArray()
{
    'count' => $this->count(),
    'total' => $this->total(),
    'prev'  => $this->previousPageUrl(),
    'next'  => $this->nextPageUrl(),

    'result' => $this->collection
}

See https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/pagination#paginator-instance-methods

ClientController.php

public function index()
{
        $clients = Client::paginate(15);

        return response(new ClientCollection($clients));
} 

@SLEV-UA - This solution worked for me! Thanks!

Just replace extending of ResourceCollection to JsonResource and you will get all pagination data using response()

Meta data is not coming, When i loading child resources using load() method. Any one can tell me why this issue is happening?