How to return composite JSON objects in Laravel?

Question

I was reading the Laravel documentation and unfortunately it didn't tell me how to make composite JSON objects.

http://laravel.com/docs/master/eloquent-serialization

So right now I have two entities: User and Post and I want to return a JSON object containing the User as the parent (JSON) and Posts as the children of User (JSON) in the JSON object. There is a one-to-many relationship between User and Post.

Here is the controller method I want to change:

public function show($user)
{
    return $user;
}

Rubens Mariuzzo · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-12 05:37:04Z

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You just need to fetch the the relationship when querying a user:

$user = User::find(123)->with('posts')->get();

Then return a JSON response.

return response()->json($user);

Happy coding!

answered Dec 12, 2015 at 5:37

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Almazik G · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-12 11:55:37Z

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In addition to Rubens Mariuzzo answer, if you haven't done this, you first need to declare relationship in your model

# User Model
public function posts()
{
    return $this->hasMany('\App\Post');
}

Then you will be able to do as Rubens Mariuzzo stated

$user = User::find(123)->with('posts')->get();

answered Dec 12, 2015 at 11:55

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