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Using put method on Laravel Eloquent Collection will always return an array

I am using Lumen (Laravel Eloquent ORM) to create a web service to use in conjunction with an app I am working on. I have a Joomla website, which I use Lumen to access resources I need from the db. I'm using Lumen to get these resources into a collection, then return a new JSON object.

To give an overview of the problem, I am creating two Collections:

I want Laravel to return a JSON object for Collection 0 (above), which will include a JSON Array containing the data of Collection 1.

Here is my code:

<?php
$current = Card::find($id);

//Collection 0
$information = $current -> cardData -> map(function($col)
return collect($col -> toArray())
->only(['id', 'ccard_cardno', 'ccard_year', 'ccard_catc', 'ccard_catt', 'ccard_issued', 'ccard_valc',
'ccard_valtod', 'ccard_valfac', 'ccard_man', 'ccard_info'])
->all();
);
//Collection 1
$galleryItems = $current -> galItems -> pluck('ccard');


After processing the data as I need, I now add the galleryItems property to my Collection 0:

$galleryItems= json_encode($finalGalleryImages);
$information -> put('galleryImages', $galleryItems);


This does work fine, however each collection will be represented as a different object which is not what I want.

What I want is the below:


"id": 528,
"ccard_cardno": "...",
"ccard_year": "...",
"ccard_catc": "...",
"ccard_catt": "...",
"ccard_issued": "...",
"ccard_valc": "...",
"ccard_valtod": "...",
"ccard_valfac": "...",
"ccard_man": "...",
"ccard_info": "...",
"galleryImages": "["thumb":"...","image":"...","title":"...",...]"



(The galleryImages property contains array of photos associated with my object. )

What I actually get is Laravel will create a new object for collection "0":


"0":
"id": 528,
"ccard_cardno": "...",
"ccard_year": "...",
"ccard_catc": "...",
"ccard_catt": "...",
"ccard_issued": "...",
"ccard_valc": "...",
"ccard_valtod": "...",
"ccard_valfac": "...",
"ccard_man": "...",
"ccard_info": "...",
,
"galleryImages": "["thumb":"...","image":"...","title":"...",...]"



The solution to this problem is to call the first() method on $information. In this case the object I put into the collection is excluded! I will get just (galleryImages property is missng)):


"id": 528,
"ccard_cardno": "...",
"ccard_year": "...",
"ccard_catc": "...",
"ccard_catt": "...",
"ccard_issued": "...",
"ccard_valc": "...",
"ccard_valtod": "...",
"ccard_valfac": "...",
"ccard_man": "...",
"ccard_info": "..."



Here is the object after the information is put() into my collection:

object(IlluminateSupportCollection)#56 (1)
["items":protected]=>
array(2)
[0]=>
array(11)
["id"]=>
int(529)
["ccard_cardno"]=>
string(4) "..."
["ccard_year"]=>
string(4) "..."
["ccard_catc"]=>
string(2) "..."
["ccard_catt"]=>
string(10) "..."
["ccard_issued"]=>
string(8) "..."
["ccard_valc"]=>
string(9) "..."
["ccard_valtod"]=>
string(7) "..."
["ccard_valfac"]=>
string(6) "..."
["ccard_man"]=>
string(22) "..."
["ccard_info"]=>
string(337) "..."

["galleryImages"]=>
string(262) "["thumb":"...","image":"...","title":"..",...]"




So it is clear why $response -> json() will now return an Array. My question is, how to I add the values to my Collection 0 using Eloquent?

2 Answers
2

Instead of using put method like below:

$information -> put('galleryImages', $galleryItems);


Try using concat method as below:

$information ->concat(['galleryImages' => $galleryItems ]);


I managed to solve this issue by avoiding the response() -> json() method, instead I manually used json_encode on the Arrays.

Here is the code for those interested:

// To avoid Array getting returned, use first()
$finalCardInformation = $cardInformation -> first();

$imagesArray = json_encode($finalGalleryImages);

array_push($finalCardInformation, $imagesArray);

$jsonResponse = response($finalCardInformation, 200)
->header('Content-Type', 'application/json');


It's not the most elegant, but seems to work fine.

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