I use Laravel 6.x and below is my response JSON.
{
"data": [
{
"id": 1,
"name": "quam",
"parent_id": 0
},
{
"id": 2,
"name": "quia",
"parent_id": 1
},
{
"id": 3,
"name": "beatae",
"parent_id": 1
},
{
"id": 4,
"name": "aut",
"parent_id": 2
},
{
"id": 5,
"name": "provident",
"parent_id": 0
},
{
"id": 6,
"name": "voluptate",
"parent_id": 0
},
{
"id": 7,
"name": "vel",
"parent_id": 2
},
{
"id": 8,
"name": "sed",
"parent_id": 3
},
{
"id": 9,
"name": "voluptates",
"parent_id": 0
},
{
"id": 10,
"name": "adipisci",
"parent_id": 6
},
...
]
}
But it want to be like this:
{
"data": [
{
"id": 1,
"name": "quam",
"children": [
{
"id": 2,
"name": "quam"
"children":[
{
"id": 4,
"name": "aut"
},
{
"id": 7,
"name": "vel",
"children": [
...
]
}
]
},
{
"id": 3,
"name": "quam",
"children":[
{
"id": 8,
"name": "sed"
}
]
},
]
},
{
"id": 5,
"name": "provident"
},
{
"id": 6,
"name": "voluptate",
"children": [
{
"id": 10,
"name": "adipisci"
}
]
},
{
"id": 9,
"name": "voluptates"
},
...
}
In fact, I want to remove the parent_id
attribute and add children
array to each object that consists of other objects have this parent_id.
CategoryResource.php
class CategoryResource extends JsonResource
{
public function toArray($request)
{
return [
'id' => $this->id,
'name' => $this->name,
'parent_id' => $this->parent_id,
];
}
}
CategoryController.php
class CategoryController extends Controller
{
public function index()
{
return CategoryResource::collection(Category::all());
}
}
How can I implement this structure?
Assuming Category is an eloquent model, Model's can reference themselves in relationships and those relationships can be recursive.
So now getting the structure you want is as simple as
You have to include the parent_id in the select statement in order for the relationships to work but the
$hidden
variable I added to the model keepsparent_id
from showing up in serialized results. The only caveat here is that all categories will have achildren
property, which will be empty for Categories that don't have children. So in your toArray method you will have to check for empty children[] and exclude them