Laravel returning associative array instead of an array of objects

Question

I am currently working on a Laravel API and wish to return some data as a JSON array. I am able successfully do it with most data, however one query returns an associative array instead of an array of the objects.

Here, you can see if I return a list of all the records, or where the type is food, a normal array of objects is returned. This will then look like [...] when returned as JSON data.

The problem is, when I wish to return type of drink, Laravel wishes to return an associative array of objects which I do not wish for. This would make my json look like {...}

Why is this happening and what could I do to stop this?

Lewa Bammy Stephen · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-28 17:15:04Z

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Check this documentation

https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/collections#method-values

Or try doing this to this to your response

return response()->json([
    'prop' => $prop->values()->toArray()
]);

answered Dec 28, 2019 at 17:15

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iProgram Over a year ago

All that needs changing is adding ->values() after the where() function. Thanks for answering!

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