Pagination data missing from api resource.

It seems this is due to changes here: https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/30801

So by that PR description, previously when calling ->toJson() the call would be forwarded to the underlying resource.

So you might expect a different output from 7.x resources when using paginated data. One difference is that paginalition links are under a meta property. Actually this was already done in previous versions when returning the resource as a response instead of calling its ->toJson() method.

You can try doing this:

dd($resource->response()->getData())

This will convert the Resource to a Response object and getData will use json_decode to decode the response's content back.

If you want the payload to be decoded as an associative array use this:

dd($resource->response()->getData(true))

And if you want the raw decoded JSON payload use this instead:

dd($resource->response()->getContent())

To make your code clean make a PaginationResource to be used across different collections and make single place for editing pagination details

then inside any resource add your Pagination resource as follow

this is Pagination resource

public function toArray($request) : Array
    {
        return [
            'total' => $this->total(),
            'count' => $this->count(),
            'per_page' => $this->perPage(),
            'current_page' => $this->currentPage(),
            'total_pages' => $this->lastPage()
        ];
    }

and add it to any other collection like this

 public function toArray($request) : Array
    {
        $pagination = new PaginationResource($this);

        return [
            'templates' => $this->collection,
            $pagination::$wrap => $pagination,
        ];
    }