Entity relationships

[thecko]

Hello,

I'm using your repo as a guide to make an API and I have a doubt. Hope you can help me.

When you have a related entity. For example, if the Book Author is another Author model. What's the best approach?
Now what I'm doing is in the BookResource, use 'author' => new AuthorResource( $this->author ). It works, and it shows the information, but I suposse I'll have problems with recursivity easily.

Is there any feature like a "link"? I mean, in author show a link to the resource to get the author data like "API URL/authors/12".

Many thanks

[Tony133]

Hello

If you have to relate entities it is certainly better to use laravel resources which are a great thing, since when I use them I have been able to do better relationships between bees.

While for the "link" functions you should do a collection of resources something like:

class BookCollection extends ResourceCollection
{
    /**
     * Transform the resource collection into an array.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @return array
     */
    public function toArray($request)
    {
        return [
            'data' => $this->collection,
            'links' => [
                'self' => 'link-value',
            ],
        ];
    }
}

or you can use this package: https://github.com/spatie/laravel-resource-links
while this is a tutorial: --> https://freek.dev/1470-a-package-that-adds-resource-links-to-your-laravel-api-resources
Using this package you have the "links" method to make the link.

this package is also interesting: --> https://github.com/gdebrauwer/laravel-hateoas

I also leave you the link of another repo that I have made of example with the resources of laravel:
https://github.com/Tony133/LaravelAPIBoilerplateJWTBook

I hope I was helpful

for anything write to me 😀

Tony