JsonResource

[radmen]

The problem

Laravel API Resource doesn't handle wrapping model relations in their respective API resources

For example: the application defines PostResource & TagResource. The controller fetches posts with their tags and returns PostResource collection. The API resource will convert the model to an array using Model#toArray() method which casts all relations in the same way.

Although there's TagResource, it won't be used.

Proposed solution

Add base JsonResource class that will pipe all related models through resource() factory. This will ensure that each related model will be converted to an array using its API Resource.

TODO

• use JsonRecourse as a fallback resource in the factory
• update README