How to work with relationships?

[francoism90]

I've implemented WithData on my models:
https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-data/v2/as-a-data-transfer-object/creating-a-data-object#content-quickly-getting-data-from-models-requests-

This is my PostData corresponding with my Post model, which has a relationship called user:

class PostData extends Data
{
    public function __construct(
        public int $id,
        public string $name,
        public string $content,
        public UserData $user,
    ) {
    }
}

class UserData extends Data
{
    public function __construct(
        public int $id,
        public string $name,
        public string $email,
    ) {
    }
}

I would expect Post::firstOrFail($id)->getData(); return a filled UserData object - however this isn't the case.

How should you deal with relationships?

Thanks!

[rubenvanassche]

At the moment we do not support automatically mapping model relationships onto data objects, in such a case a magic creation method is probably the best solution to the problem!

[francoism90]

@rubenvanassche https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-data/v2/as-a-resource/lazy-properties#content-relational-lazy-properties

Exactly what I need! Thanks. :)

[francoism90]

@rubenvanassche It would help if you guys could fix the search engine lol.